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Standing on Fishes

Mezzo-soprano Marta Burton gives voice to contemporary Colorado composers and classic poets, performing new settings of Rainer Maria Rilke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rumi, e. e. cummings and Mary Oliver. Poems to be set by David Harris, Anthony Zator, Sheldon Sands and Nick Rossi.

Moving Forward

The deep parts of my life pour onward,

as if the river shores were opening out.

It seems that things are more like me now,

that I can see farther into paintings.

I feel closer to what language can’t reach.

With my senses, as with birds, I climb

into the windy heaven, out of the oak,

and in the ponds broken off from the sky

my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.

--Rainer Maria Rilke