Wanderer Moon

Song Cycle by Tonia Ko (b. 1988)

1. A Prelude  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I know only the bare rocks of today
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Confirmed with William Carlos Williams, A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere!, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. : The Four Seas Press, 1917, p.36


2. Summer Song  [sung text not yet checked]

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Wanderer moon 
smiling a 
faintly ironical smile 
at this 
brilliant, dew-moistened 
summer morning,— 
a detached 
sleepily indifferent 
smile, a 
wanderer’s smile,— 
if I should 
buy a shirt 
your color and 
put on a necktie 
sky-blue 
where would they carry me?

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3. Winter Trees  [sung text not yet checked]

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All the complicated details 
of the attiring and 
the disattiring are completed! 
A liquid moon 
moves gently among 
the long branches. 
Thus having prepared their buds 
against a sure winter 
the wise trees 
stand sleeping in the cold.

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Total word count: 137