Work is well under way on my commission from WomenSing. It's going to be a five movement suite, with each movement using text by a different child poet. The first movement is done, pending a workshop, and I'm very happy with the way the piece is going. Libby Larsen is acting as my mentor, since this is my first proper commission, and working with her has been awesome so far.
Here are the poems I've selected:
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
I'll continue to post updates on here as things progress.
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