Orphic Suite, by Cheng: the myth of Orpheus re-energised. The poet speaks of death and deaths and yet it is joy that seizes us.
“The Median Void will turn everything into song,/ And the torn body into resonant breath.” “Death erases nothing; Orpheus will persist/ In turning around, pulling the beloved from the shadows’ “ “Orpheus is the first of the gods. He is the only one who can save the world.