Lullaby for a Young Road

9 October 2015
KeyedUp Music Project
“The Poetry of Chester Biscardi”
Dennis Tobenski, tenor
Marc Peloquin, piano

to Darien Shulman for his 29th birthday

D4–F#5 or D3–F#4 (transpositions available upon request)

Jorn Ake : "Lullaby for a Young Road"

Lullaby for a Young Road

At day’s end, I lie down
like a quiet path.
I say my name before I sleep
once secretly,
and once to my path
so that it may remember my location.
Little Traveler, I say, when I wake,
Carry me like a lamb to my name.

— Jorn Ake

Text of “Lullaby for a Young Road”
from Asleep in the Lightning Fields, published by Texas Review Press.
Copyright © 2002 by Jorn Ake.
Used with kind permission of the author.