We Move Through Sinking

2022

7 min.

Multichannel art song for voice, bitKlavier, and Vocodec.

We Move Through Sinking

text by Christopher Douthitt

Feathers graze the lips

Antlers choke the tongue

We punched a hole through ice crystal fog

Sponge crystals spike the lung

The sun slacks

The moon zigs and zags

In bent light

We move we move we move

Moth split your iris

Fling mirrors to the sky

The flash of ultraviolet wings

Splash halo flares off the punctured lens

The air coils, the torso tangles and yet

We move we move and yet

We move through sinking

We move we move and yet

We move as though sinking

We move we move and yet

We move as though through sinking

As though we move though through sinking

We move even as though through sinking

We move