Three poems of Emily Dickinson

Voice and orchestra

2004-2005 – 15mn

No recording available

I – Presentiment – is that long Shadow

II – It is dead – Find it

III – Great Streets of silence

Words

• I.
  Presentiment – is that long Shadow – on the Lawn
  Indicative that Suns go down –

  The Notice to the startled Grass
  That Darkness – is about to pass –

• II.
  It is dead – Find it –
  Out of sound – Out of sight –
  “Happy”? Which is wiser –
  You, or the Wind?
  “Conscious”? Won’t you ask that –
  Of the low Ground?

  “Homesick”? Many met it –
  Even through them – This
  Cannot testify –
  Themself – as dumb –

• III.
  Great Streets of silence led away
  To Neighborhoods of Pause –
  Here was no Notice – no Dissent
  No Universe – no Laws –

  By Clocks, ‘twas Morning, and for Night
  The Bells at Distance called –
  But epoch had no basis here
  For Period exhaled.