Lucio Petroccione, Composer
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  • Soundscapes
    • gehrig st
    • away from home
    • every moment
    • driving home...
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • without you...
    • tear my soul...
    • incredible day
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • flying
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
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  • Words
    • the yellow taxi
    • yesterday
    • pink sweater
    • brown meadows
    • snowing in new york
    • thirty years
    • some dogs for me
    • the table
    • disturb
    • travel too
    • every every
    • god
    • home
    • unusual
    • the night before
    • the passing
    • soaring
    • as one
    • hundred times
    • untitled
    • a poem
    • fallen
    • dance as she sings
    • tender and sweet
    • the hill
    • the bridge
    • wistful words
    • lay witness
    • family
    • how far can i run
    • with you
    • twenty minutes to the bridge
    • a wine glass of you
    • drowning into you
    • your
    • broken
    • but for you
    • still more
    • hotel by the sea
    • coming back
    • winter calls
  • Contact Lucio
  • the basement
lay witness

doubtless i have witnessed it
i cannot really tell
i haven't imagined the scene
over and over it plays
like a performance that has worn thin
almost to the very core
i am moved by the pictures of the children
reaching out with their outstretched hands
beckoning
calling
images that suddenly vanish
only white mist remains on the stoop where the old lady sat
did she hear the flash
and see the wind as it burned through her town
no town
remains of a place with just a name
did it bring happiness to those who forged a life from her
the tiny storess with fresh baked goods
and the drunk who knew all for some cigarettes and a drink
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  • Home
  • Angelika
  • Orchestral Works
    • When Whales Walked
    • Blackbirds
    • Kerry's Field
    • Stealing Pieces of Time
    • Four Panels
    • Autumn
    • A Winter's Tale
    • Kill Devil Hill
    • Sermon on the Mount
  • Chamber Works
    • Two Sketches
    • Poesia
    • Ocean Sketches >
      • A Year of Storms
      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
      • Heading Out
      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • The Summer House
    • Blue Fields
    • The Swan
    • Of Younger Days
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Standing Still
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Jagged Memories
    • Children's Lullaby
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
    • An Awkward Man
  • Soundscapes
    • gehrig st
    • away from home
    • every moment
    • driving home...
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • without you...
    • tear my soul...
    • incredible day
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • flying
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
  • Art Gallery
  • Words
    • the yellow taxi
    • yesterday
    • pink sweater
    • brown meadows
    • snowing in new york
    • thirty years
    • some dogs for me
    • the table
    • disturb
    • travel too
    • every every
    • god
    • home
    • unusual
    • the night before
    • the passing
    • soaring
    • as one
    • hundred times
    • untitled
    • a poem
    • fallen
    • dance as she sings
    • tender and sweet
    • the hill
    • the bridge
    • wistful words
    • lay witness
    • family
    • how far can i run
    • with you
    • twenty minutes to the bridge
    • a wine glass of you
    • drowning into you
    • your
    • broken
    • but for you
    • still more
    • hotel by the sea
    • coming back
    • winter calls
  • Contact Lucio
  • the basement