{"id":5083,"date":"2023-11-21T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-majesty-and-mystery-of-night-migration-in-a-stunning-poem-turned-to-music-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T11:30:49","slug":"the-majesty-and-mystery-of-night-migration-in-a-stunning-poem-turned-to-music-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-majesty-and-mystery-of-night-migration-in-a-stunning-poem-turned-to-music-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Majesty and Mystery of Night Migration, in a Stunning Poem Turned to Music \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cNight, when words fade and things come alive,\u201d <em>Little Prince<\/em> author Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2019\/05\/14\/antoine-de-saint-exupery-night\/\">his love letter to the hours of darkness<\/a>, composed while flying alone over the Sahara Desert. <\/p>\n<p>No aliveness animates the nocturne with more grandeur than the migration of birds. Every spring and fall, in the starlit corridor between the trees and the clouds, flocks of millions soar over dark deserts and oceans, cities and continents \u2014 feathered pilgrims of purpose and resilience, governed by senses we don\u2019t have, guided by voices we are only just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/magazine\/september-october-2013\/listening-migrating-birds-night-may?utm_source=pocket_saves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beginning to hear<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81347 jetpack-lazy-image\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?w=1894&amp;ssl=1 1894w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=320%2C203&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=600%2C380&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=240%2C152&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=768%2C487&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=1536%2C973&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?w=1360&amp;ssl=1 1360w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=680%2C431&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"\/><noscript><img data-lazy-fallback=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=680%2C431&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?w=1894&amp;ssl=1 1894w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=320%2C203&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=600%2C380&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=240%2C152&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=768%2C487&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?resize=1536%2C973&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themarginalian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charleyharper_migrants.jpeg?w=1360&amp;ssl=1 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charleyharper.com\/mystery-of-the-missing-migrants-lithograph.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mystery of the Missing Migrants<\/em><\/a> by Charley Harper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Across these immense distances, often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2021\/09\/24\/wayfinding-m-r-oconnor\/\">navigating by astronomy<\/a>, birds stay on course and stay together by a kind of choral communication, speaking to each other in strange and wondrous sounds \u2014 some only fractions of a second long, all entirely different from their daytime calls and songs. <\/p>\n<p>And all of it \u2014 this secret language of the night, this miracle of sentience and synchrony, this fiesta of homecoming \u2014 while we sleep, while we dream of flying. <\/p>\n<p>Poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannahfries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hannah Fries<\/a> conjures up the majesty and mystery of night migration in a stunning poem, set to music by composer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivercaplan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Caplan<\/a> and channeled in the human voices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmasterchorale.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire Master Chorale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Night Migrations\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6TNzLyX4DM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>NIGHT MIGRATIONS<\/strong><br \/><em>by Hannah Fries<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We sleep,<br \/>stumbling<br \/>through doorless dreams,<br \/>while over our rooftops<br \/>sky shivers with wings \u2014<br \/>warblers, cuckoos,<br \/>herons and sparrows \u2014<br \/>waves rising<br \/>on night\u2019s cool breath.<\/p>\n<p>We sleep<br \/>as they follow the stars<br \/>(hummingbird and wren)<br \/>high over shadowed earth,<br \/>trees clinging to rock,<br \/>cities curled in grief.<br \/>We close our windows,<br \/>bury our faces \u2014<\/p>\n<p>we sleep<br \/>and they speak:<br \/>buzz and whistle,<br \/>secret names<br \/>through air<br \/>tying each to each.<\/p>\n<p>We sleep<br \/>as they fly<br \/>(imagine being lifted)<br \/>by moon and magnet,<br \/>over undulating sea<br \/>toward a place<br \/>(remember)<br \/>that echoes<br \/>in hallowed clearings,<br \/>in hollowed bones,<br \/>the song that pulls them<br \/>home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Couple with Richard Powers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2022\/10\/29\/richard-powers-echo-maker\/\">the majestic migration of sandhill cranes<\/a>, then revisit Emily Dickinson\u2019s soulful ode to ecology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2022\/02\/04\/universe-in-verse-bloom\/\">set to song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNight, when words fade and things come alive,\u201d Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry wrote in his love letter to the hours of darkness, composed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}