G R A Y S O N J A R V I S
NIGHTCREEPS For Women's Choir
Ghosts scale walls, wallpapered walls, hang loosely in corners, in web-spun corners and applaud for nightmares, those crooked-stitch dreams, my gasp for air and mindless mutterings, For life disintegrating into vapor around my head, for unholy spirits dancing on my bed When ghosts hang in web spun corners stir from stillness, They call Encore - Chad Jarvis
Program Note: “I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Written for Cantus and the Fearless Karen Keating (KK)
NIGHTCREEPS Chad Jarvis
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ghost scale
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