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Atavism - Three Poems by Elinor Wylie (2014) two sopranos, guitar + bassoon

from "As a Fowl" - live premieres from Sep 5, 2014 at the Center for New Music by Kyle Hovatter

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(no. 2) Atavism - Three Poems by Elinor Wylie for two sopranos, guitar + bassoon

written in 2014
performed by Jarring Sounds, Amy Foote + Alexis Luque

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Atavism by Elinor Wylie

I was always afraid of Somes's Pond:
Not the little pond, by which the willow stands, Where laughing boys catch alewives in their hands In brown, bright shallows; but the one beyond. There, where the frost makes all the birches burn Yellow as cow-lilies, and the pale sky shines
Like a polished shell between black spruce and pines, Some strange thing tracks us, turning where we turn.
!You'll say I dreamed it, being the true daughter Of those who in old times endured this dread. Look! Where the lily-stems are showing red
A silent paddle moves below the water,
A sliding shape has stirred them like a breath; Tall plumes surmount a painted mask of death.

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from "As a Fowl" - live premieres from Sep 5, 2014 at the Center for New Music, released September 30, 2014

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