Sea Poppies (2017)
Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
Duration: 8’
Premiered by Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, featuring Ariadne Lih (soprano) and conducted by Ian Niederhoffer, Battell Chapel, New Haven, CT, April 2017
text
"Sea Poppies," by H.D.
Amber husk
fluted with gold,
fruit on the sand
marked with a rich grain,
treasure
spilled near the shrub-pines
to bleach on the boulders:
your stalk has caught root
among wet pebbles
and drift flung by the sea
and grated shells
and split conch-shells.
Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so fragrant a leaf
as your bright leaf?