featuring Elektra Women’s Choir with chamber instruments: director – Morna Edmundson
accompaniment options – piano only or marimba
LYRICS
Should 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 ̶
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 ̶
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 ̶
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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SSAA with piano – CP 2204
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