The Patience of Ordinary Things

SATB with Divisi

Music by Mark Growden
Text by Pat Schneider

THE PATIENCE OF ORDINARY THINGS
by Pat Schneider
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?

SKU: MGN-005 Categories: ,
Voicing:SATB
Instrumentation:A Cappella
Language:English
Sacred or Secular:Secular
Duration:1-5 Minutes

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