STARLING

mvt. 17  from “The Lost Words”

by Stephen Smith

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featuring Elektra Women’s Choir with chamber instruments: director – Morna Edmundson
accompaniment options – piano only or marimba

LYRICS


S
hould green-as-moss be mixed with
  blue-of-steel be mixed with gleam-of gold
  you’d still fall short by far of the ̶

Tar-bright oil-slick sheen and

  gloss of starling wing.
 
And if you sampled sneaker-squeaks
  and car-alarms and phone ringtones
  you’d still come nowhere near the ̶
 
Rooftop riprap street-smart
  hip-hop of starling song.
 
Let shade clasp coal clasp pitch
  clasp storm clasp witch,
  they’d still be pale beside the ̶
 
In-the-dead-of-night-black, cave-black,
  head-cocked, fight-back gleam of starling eye.
 
Northern lights teaching shoaling fish teaching
  swarming flies teaching clouding ink
  would never learn the ̶
 
Ghostly swirling surging whirling melting
  murmuration of starling flock.
 
 

by Robert Macfarlane

Kingfisher” image by Jackie Morris

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LINKS to any of the 20 MOVEMENTS

1) Acorn

2) Adder
5) Conker
7) Fern
9) Heron
10) Ivy
12) Lark
13) Magpie
14) Newt
15) Otter
16) Raven
18) Weasel
19) Willow
20) Wren