Heart Across Night — Paraphrase on ‘Straight, No Chaser’
Searching throats, a
night’s orchestra
soaring the
charts.
Hot tears crashing:
groan, chatter, hiss…
A torch-singer’s hat, it’s a
short-changer tango,
shirt-chaser,
straight-ace horns,
as right as the corn.
This short carnage
hath no
rest.
Cigars, a
shoestring chart
in cargos—that’s her,
heart across night.
— Michael Norris, 2012
The first performance of Heart Across Night was given by David Bremner, Lenny Sakofsky and Alexander Gunchenko at Downstage Theatre, Wellington, December 2012.
Heart Across Night was commissioned by David Bremner, with funding from Creative New Zealand.