Text (after Rapture)
2016, Voice & Piano
written for Prof. Jay Alan Yim’s composition course “Content” at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music
Poetry by Carol Ann Duffy
I tend to the mobile now
like an injured bird
We text, text, text
our significant words
I re-read your first
your second, your third
Look for your small xx
feeling absurd
The notes we send
arrive with a broken chord
I try to picture your hands
their image is blurred
Nothing my thumbs press
will ever be heard