Looking at something so ordinary
Language: English
Looking at something so ordinary
I don't know how to see it:
the heaped sleeve of a woman writing,
her words like a tapestry appearing
alongside her figure on the painted screen.
With the sound of the koto
the wind in the pines of the mountain peak
seems to communicate - one sound opening into
the other. With which note shall I begin,
she asks, and asking, chooses
neither windblown note
but a third sound, out of time,
like a door thrown open
between this light and her own.
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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), "Looking at something so ordinary" [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. 3. [
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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: 14
Word count: 89