© by Nancy Nowak (b. 1952)

At the children's museum, I'd lose...
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.

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Lynn Steele (1951 - 2002), "At the children's museum, I'd lose myself" [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 verified 1 time
    ]

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