Music by Oliver Caplan, www.olivercaplan.com
Poetry by Meghan Guidry, www.meghansguidry.com/
New Hampshire Master Chorale
www.nhmasterchorale.org/
Juventas New Music Ensemble
www.juventasmusic.org/
Dan Perkins, Conductor
October 29, 2022
Granoff Music Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA
Worth the Wait
Poetry by Meghan Guidry
I knew you every spring
when the cherry blossoms bloomed.
Pink petals strewn on marble white.
I knew you in the rhythms
of city grids, footfall symphonies
that swelled on summer nights.
I knew you in the currents
of Cayuga Lake, where willows dipped
to deeper blues like shrines.
I knew you on top of Giles Tower
where starlight sang your name
through red maples and pitch pine.
I knew you every time I held
my hands in the soil and heard
you in the reverberation of the roots.
I knew you in every new melody
taking shape, the fade
of piano keys to quiet truths.
I knew you in every single step.
So when we met,
I had known you forever.