for mezzo-soprano and double bass, 1993, duration: 11 minutes.1
Three Poems
by Robert Creeley
from his collection - Windows
LIGHTS
I could get
all of it.
I could say
anything.
I wish I could
just get even.
I’m here.
I’m still here.
When did
it happen.
Where was
everyone.
I wish I could
just get even.
Now you’ve
gone away.
Nobody
wants to stay.
Here I am.
Here I am.
IF
Up the edge of the window out to
tree’s overhanging branches sky
light on facing building up to
faint wash blue up on feet ache
now old toes wornout joints make
the wings of an angel so I’d fly.
CONSOLATIO
What’s gone is gone.
What’s lost is lost.
What’s felt as pulse-
what’s mind, what’s home.
Who’s here,where’s there-
what’s patience now.
What thought of all,
why echo it.
Now to begin-
Why fear the end.
Creeley Songs
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano, and Peter Paulsen, doublebass
Lights
If
Consolatio
1 Published by Theodore Presser Co., Inc.
2 Published by Carl Fischer, Inc. = available from Theodore Presser Co., Inc.
3 Recorded by CRI. - available from New World CRI : Catalog No. NWCRL484
4 Recorded by SEAMUS Recordings
5 Available from the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music
6 Recorded by Black Canyon Recordings
7 Recorded by Albany Records