Ars Poetica:
Text by Rebecca Morgan Frank, Editor-in-Cheif of Memorious, a journal of new verse and fiction.

The oyster doesn’t mourn
what is removed,
or consider the cause of creation.

It just keeps fashioning
beauty, conception
a mundane task.

Invasion, injury
transformed in brine,
in protein and aragonite
layered over time.

Instrumentation: voice and piano

Duration: 2 minutes
Date: 2010