No Promises

This week's email from Barnes & Noble included a coupon for No Promises by Carla Bruni, a "B&N Exclusive." Well, I left the coupon sitting on my desk work when I left on Friday afternoon; however, after listening to clips from the CD in the store, coupon or no, this one was coming home with me.

Most of my music purchases are done on iTunes these days, so it was quite a treat to unwrap a CD, read the liner notes, and take in the beautiful pictorial and graphical presentation of Ms. Bruni's compositions based on poems by Wm. Butler Yeats, Dorothy Parker, W. H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Walter de la Mare, and Christina Rossetti.

One struck a perfect chord~

Afternoon

When I am old and comforted

And done with this desire

With memory to share my bed

And peace to share my fire,

I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands

Beneath my laundered cap

And watch my cool and frabile hands

Lie light upon my lap.

And I will have a sprigged gown

With lace to kiss my throat

I'll draw my curtain to the town,

and hum a purring note.

And I'll forget the way of tears,

And rock, and stir my tea.

But oh, I wish those blessed years

Were further than they be!

~~Dorothy Parker

A lovely, sensual CD.