Smith-Beams: Part III
(2009)

for three voices of any gender (9')

Premiere: January 22, 2010 Conrad Prebys Music Center (La Jolla, CA)
Tiffany DuMouchelle / Leslie Leytham / Meghann Welsh (vocalists)

Brooklyn's dark night(

my ring fringe
your city binge
and the good mouth

,dry

)seemingly see me now
here before you
(let's meet the endless)
only a second outstretched.
a second hand -
a trophy, a reminder, a warning

i died far from Ra

in years, all this will track its end
sending only your eyes

but your eyes don't shine anymore
when they meet mine

Text by Robert Pierzak and Scott Petersen