Here, I am re-using Spring 2026 and voicing it over with my favorite poems and dramatic monologues.

These are the start times: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 00:00, Sea-Fever 00:34, Hope Is a Thing with Feathers 01:58, There’s a Certain Slant of Light 02:40, Because I Could Not Stop for Death 03:28, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died 04:43, The Lake Isle of Innisfree 05:39, When You Are Old 06:53, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 07:55, The Second Coming 09:39, Sonnet 18 11:33, Sonnet 29 12:44, Sonnet 30 13:47, Sonnet 55 14:53, Sonnet 60 16:01, Sonnet 73 17:11, Sonnet 71 18:20, Sonnet 106 19:23, Sonnet 116 20:29, Saint Crispin’s Day 21:30, This Sceptered Isle 25:15, To Be or Not to Be 28:16, Friends Romans Countrymen 30:42, The Cold Heaven 33:38, The Tower 34:46, The Wild Swans at Coole 46:41, The Stolen Child 48:34, A Prayer for My Daughter 51:27, The Tyger 56:52, Under Ben Bulben 58:24.

I replaced the still-photos in the last quarter of the movie with walk-in-the-woods moving videos. I am one who believes consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, but I, in fact, I wanted consistency here, that is, images that fit to the full screen throughout the movie.

I had a cold while recording some of the poems and speeches. You may notice or not. It did not have a big effect, so I went with those anyway.

I found the W B Yeats poems The Tower and Under Ben Bulben a bit challenging, but I connect with Yeats so well that I went with those long pieces. It turns out that my people and his people were only one parish apart in County Sligo, Ireland. I did enough research into family names, that I have concluded that we are not related. Still, many times, when I read Yeats, I think to myself: I have had that feeling before; I have had that thought before; Yes, I came to the same conclusion about those who possess great beauty; and, very often, I too cherish a connection to the land.