OTTER

mvt.15 from “The Lost Words”

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Cypress Choral Music · Otter – by Monica Pearce – #15 from “The Lost Words”

featuring Elektra Women’s Choir with chamber instruments: director – Morna Edmundson
accompaniment options – piano only or bass clarinet and log drum

LYRICS

Otter enters river without falter – what a

supple slider out of holt and into water!

This shape-shifter’s a sheer breath-taker, a

sure heart-stopper – but you’ll only ever spot
a shadow-flutter, bubble-skein, and never

(almost never) actual otter.

This swift swimmer’s a silver-miner – with

trout its ore it bores each black pool deep

and deeper, delves up-current steep and

steeper, turns the water inside-out, then

inside-outer.

Ever dreamed of being otter? That

utter underwater thunderbolter, that

shimmering twister?

Run to the riverbank, otter-dreamer, slip

your skin and change your matter, pour

your outer being into otter – and enter

now as otter without falter into water.

by Robert Macfarlane
“Kingfisher” image by Jackie Morris

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LINKS to any of the 20 MOVEMENTS

1) Acorn

2) Adder

3) Bluebell

4) Bramble

5) Conker

6) Dandelion

7) Fern

8) Heather

9) Heron

10) Ivy

11) Kingfisher

12) Lark

13) Magpie

14) Newt

15) Otter

16) Raven

17) Starling

18) Weasel

19) Willow

20) Wren

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