Title	Thinking Of You
Year Composed	2005
Duration	00:07:00
Ensemble Type	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Voice with Chamber/Jazz Ensemble, 2-5 Players
Instrumentation	1 Cello, 1 Harp, 1 Soprano
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Additional Information	A commission from One World Symphony for music for soprano, cello and harp set me off on a hunt through the poetry sections of several bookstores. In the end, I wound up finding inspiration, as one often does, a la Dorothy, in my own home, in a small book of poems about love. I cannot now recall where I first found these poems by John MacKenzie, but they are striking, haiku-like, poignant, down to earth, and seemed to me, to call for music. Thinking of you, I can’t slow the lines Hammering through me. The poem, caught Between thought and word, shatters Against the anvil of itself. The shards rust on the page. No matter how wide I open my eyes to light, You do not appear. I see you most clearly, Now, In darkness. If you were Braille, And my tongue were My only means of seeing, I would read you Aloud. I have spoken little, tonight. I am astounded at how My teeth have formed The sounds of every word Into sculptures of you: One has me curled against you; In another, You could be singing, Your head thrown back, your raised hands Hold the next few notes. The words by John MacKenzie are by permission of the author

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