THE DEER AND THE WEEVIL
Where the Deer Strides its girth
- upon the mountainside
As weevils poke their heads
Through barn doors
- to satisfy themselves
- lost in who they are;
That they may bear,
Such consuming elegance.
A burst of joy
A burst of grief
The apple blossom
The curling leaf -
The smile that reaches into my heart
The moments spent in disbelief -
The long dark day,
The long dark night
- that seems to have no conclusion
- the rhyme - no nothing
Accept the passing away
Of all things - reborn...
DANCE ON THE MOON is a saga centred in the Old Town of Hastings on the East Coast of England in the late 1600's, the heyday of Piracy. The story is a critique of Empire. It is set in a rundown curio shop owned by a grizzly ex-pirate, Captain Ezra Gideon and his young son, Tristan. It is a moving coming-of-age love story.
Young Tristan longs to escape from the shadows of his father's past, but he is held back by the old man's iron will and his love for a Caribbean girl, Billie, the daughter of a local fisherman. There are flashbacks to his father's days under Sir Henry Morgan, the infamous Privateer/Pirate and his brutal sacking of Panama City.
The drama is interwoven with original songs composed by William Lawrence.