SHE TORE A MAP (2015)
SA, piano
Commissioned by Graphite Publishing for the 2015-16 Women’s Choir Commissioning Consortium
Secular
Choral score
$1.50 per copy (you are buying a digital license)
Text:
Once
by mistake
she tore a map
in half.
She taped it back,
but crookedly.
Now all the roads ended in water.
There were mountains
right next to her hometown.
Wouldn't that be nice
if it were true?
I'd tear a map and be right next
to you.
- Naomi Shihab Nye (Used with permission)