WomenSing and River of Words commissioned me to write this piece, using text from their library of poetry written by children. I got to work with Libby Larsen as my mentor on a public workshop of the piece up in the Bay Area on April 30, 2011. They then premiered the piece on June 5, 2011 in Berkeley, with a second performance on June 8 in Lafayette. They were awesome. The crowd was awesome. I'd like to work with them again on something.
SSAA chorus with solos and divisi
Piano
Percussion
Horizon please continue
Until the end of the sky
Your
Mingled tinted twilights
Prelude to a pearly sliced moon
You are the dividing line
Between gravity and geese
Crossed by dimmed silhouettes.
From My Boat
From my boat,
I like the night
I do not think
the moon
is the moon.
I think the moon is
a manta ray.
The stars and fish
swim in the
black water.
Reflection
Yesterday,
I found a person just like me
in the frozen pond.
Untitled
The moon voice
shouts out
brilliant twilight
through acres of black sky
My World
I stand on the moon
Looking at the big, round, blue earth
And I'm going to eat it
Very, very slowly