For the last year or so my husband has really fallen in love with poetry. Not surprising given he is a songwriter and musician. He started playing with taking some of his favorite poems and setting them to music. This is not a new idea of course many famous poems are songs that we love. This was more just a creative exercise until it really sunk in and took root. This was a project he wanted to really bring to life. This video is the first of a series where he takes some of the best loved poetry and sets it to music. And more from this, there is a whole album coming out of this idea – more on that later.

First up Stanley Kunitz – Three Floors

Three Floors

Mother was a crack of light
and a gray eye peeping;
I made believe by breathing hard
that I was sleeping.

Sister’s doughboy on last leave
has robbed me of her hand;
downstairs at intervals she played
Warum on the baby grand.

Under the roof a wardrobe trunk
whose lock a boy could pick
contained a red Masonic hat
and a walking stick.

Bolt upright in my bed that night
I saw my father flying;
the wind was walking on my neck,
the windows were crying.