Under the microscope, two heart cells
Language: English
Under the microscope, two heart cells
separately pulsing:
Watch them touch, and, without knowing,
synchronize, and beat together.
I can think of you and never know
what you are thinking,
hold you, sweetly breathing, without expecting
my breath to catch
like yours. I followed you
walking bare-headed in the rain
through the dangerous park,
each of us imagining the other's anger
wrongly. Yet at the sound of my voice
turn, speak, no code to be broken; touch
that leaves us unchanged
but touched; nothing,
everything, out of the ordinary.
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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), "Under the microscope, two heart cells" [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. 2. [
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Researcher for this page: Lynn Steele
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 89