whereupon the stars

whereupon the stars: the sea, surface that shifts and churns and hides crepuscular life, eating away at the sodden earth and shimmering back the gazing night. This is a recitation of “The Fish” by Marianne Moore, it is coastal erosion, it is six improvisations inside the mouth. Imagine Hildegard’s “tiny... intimate voices of nature, of bodies, of dreams” along Kits Beach. Walk between the slippages of beings in water and land. Something—we still don’t know what—clicks in a pond in Newcastle. Pools gasp in relief as the tide cuts new canals in dense sand, and grass walks out of the sea.

Recording of premiere by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble. Grant Hall, Brown University, 12 February 2026