Commissioned by the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Cincinnati Song Initiative, with major support from Lori Laitman

for soprano and piano

poetry by Billy Collins

duration: 5’00”

Carry

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

I want to carry you

and for you to carry me

the way voices are said to carry over water.

Just this morning on the shore,

I could hear two people talking quietly

in a rowboat on the far side of the lake.

!ey were talking about fishing,

then one changed the subject,

and, I swear, they began talking about you.

Permission by Chris Calhoun Agency © Billy Collins.