Description

Voicing: voice, piano
(from The Time of Singing Has Come)

duration: 3 minutes

Level: 1

Text

The wedding is the promise
of two old ones inside the young ones,
so old they can barely
sit up by themselves.

Old woman, old man,
each wants someone all of their own
to be there
to sit in the other
chair.

– from Wedding, by Marisha Chamberlain
reprinted with permission