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Sound constructed from field recordings at two churches.Cartmel Priory in the Lake District UK and St. Catherine of Alexandria Krakow Poland.At this latter location there is the resonating sound of coins being inserted into a metal box in order for candles to be purchased.They are then lit, perhaps in memory of a loved one.

Poetry by MiE Fielding. Mixed for headphones.

An old man of failing health
surveys a box of motorbike parts
and remembers days when he didn't ache

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He now won't and never would have got the time

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His life in the box lies incomplete
As the doctor says It's not good news

From his advert gleefully answered by a younger bloke
The box of rusting parts is bought
In this box there lies HIS youth
A chance to apply a break on time

Now ten years pass and alas the box of parts still lie

A young man puts out an ad
"My dad never got the time"

An old man calls
" I'll take the lot and roll back the years"

But the time never came as once again

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