© by Nancy Nowak (b. 1952)

Language: English 
At the children's museum, I'd lose myself
in the model of the heart.
Up the narrow stairs into the right ventricle,
I was blood
pumped by the great slow bear
beating somewhere ahead.

The latex walls were candled by light
as if the heart were its own source
or had its own source
I would find at some turning
before the stairs
that brought me down into the museum again.

Composition:

    Set to music by Lynn Steele (1951 - 2002), no title [ mezzo-soprano, flute (doubles on alto flute), oboe (doubles on English horn), viola, cello, celesta, and percussion (vibraphone, marimba, triangle, bell tree, wind gong, crotales, metal wind chimes, glass wind chimes, temple blocks) ], from Walking through the heart, no. 1

Text Authorship:

  • by Nancy Nowak (b. 1952), copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Researcher for this page: Lynn Steele

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70