forlornness

Two artists who move in disparate circles reminded us of what it means for a song to capture a common forlornness.

There is a forlornness to the bungalow, which the owner seems to have set up initially as a family home, with its paint chipping in several places.

Cobbled together from found objects — a lamp with a crooked shade, rusty tools, a shopping cart commandeered as an operating table — it imbues the site of an at-home abortion with almost unbearable forlornness.

There’s a forlornness to some of these clowns, and a loneliness.

After two hours of music and the forlornness of the Fifth Suite, the Sixth was resplendent, a golden ending.