looking back

bear

As I rise,

See the fall

In my stride Only grow

From the crawl In my hide.

With the teeth

Gagging back, Grimace wide

Little Bear

Bounding up,

With the whites In her eyes –

Bigger rock Up above:

“Gotta knack For the climb.”

— Jessica Mays

Commissioned by the Castle of Our Skins concert series and their 2018 program themed around black feminism and female empowerment.

elegy

Performed by the BlackBox Ensemble Leonard Bopp, Conductor

_{Dedicated to the memory of my grandmother.}

Purchase the Blackbox Ensemble album Elegy HERE