Pollen
SATB
Text by Sandra Marchetti
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Pollen
Droplets. Clumping molecules.
Leaves' breaths
on the backs of cars
that only through water were—
and then were only ever
particular ghosts—
a neon peridot.
​
The pollen falls around,
pushes back
through nostrils,
sifts in lashes,
lands in beds
under eyelids.
​
We pull our eyelids
at their sheeted corners,
as if to press the eye all the more
toward the bloom,
the dusty after-center of nature's
first derivation.
Performed by Aliro Voices, directed by Kurt Hattenberger
Program Notes
Intuitive canonic lines build into lush harmonies, making this piece accessible to intermediate choirs while sounding harmonically advanced. The poem is by contemporary Chicago-based poet Sandra Marchetti, who you can read about here and here.
Premiered by Magpies & Ravens, directed by Curtis Kettler
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN, March 12 2016