2002

Two Worlds (op. 80, no. 6)

Composed by Lowell Liebermann

Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80 Song Collection

"Two Worlds" is the final song from Lowell Liebermann's Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80.

Text

Two Worlds

By Raymond Carver

 

In air heavy

with odor of crocuses,

 

sensual smell of crocuses,

I watch a lemon sun disappear,

 

a sea change blue

to olive black.

 

I watch lightning leap from Asia as

sleeping,

 

my love stirs and breathes and

sleeps again,

 

part of this world and yet

part of that.