From: "Summer Brenner" <summerbrenner@earthlink.net>

DIRECTION: All voices begin in unison in LOUD WHISPER/sotto voce. The following lines are broken by the number of voices associated with each line -- and the appropriate number follows each line.

THE FLOOD by Summer Brenner

all the waters are going to the ocean - 4
all the waters are going to the ocean - 4
all of them are taking their course - 4
all of them following their course - 4
following them - 4
all the waters - 4
all of them - 4

the ocean receives all the waters - 1

the ocean takes them - 2

all of them - 3

takes the land too - 4

takes the land - 1

and gives the land too - 2

all of it - 4

gives the edges - 1

gives the lines - 2
to the edge of the waters - 2
all of them - 2

all the land - 3

all of the edges are smoothed by the waters - 4
all the waters - 4
all of them - 4

the waters are eating the land - 3
eating it smoothly - 3

that is how the waters eat the land - 1

it is the love for the land - 2the love of the waters for the land - 3

all of the waters are in love - 2

they are in love with the land - 1

all of them going to the ocean - 3
they are in love with the land - 3

the ocean comes up - 1 (different single voices)
and takes all the waters - 1
and all the land - 1
and eats it - 1

with its wet breath - 2
its wet breath - 2 (loud whisper)

all of the waters - 3

hot in their bed - 1

are going to the ocean - 3
and taking the land - 3

there is no decision - 1

the land makes no decision - 2

they take to each other smoothly - 3

that is how the waters take to the land - 1

all of them take to the land - 3

that is the edge - 1

it lies between the waters and the land - 3

between all of them - 1

that is the bed of the waters - 4
and the bed of the land - 4

smoothly they lie together - 2

and there is no mistake - 4

no mistakes - 2

not one - 1

 

they lie together - 3
all of them - 3
and there is no decision - 3

the bed of the land opens - 4
at the edge - 4

every edge opens - 1

opens for the waters - 4
and the water takes the land - 4
and the ocean takes the water - 4

all of the waters are going to the ocean - 2

it is the blood of the earth's body - 1

all of it is blood - 2

the land lies down at the waters - 3
and the water lies down at the land - 3
and the ocean going takes the land - 3

the land drinks the waters - 4

all of it is drinking the water - 1

there is no decision - 2

the land makes no decision - 1

the land drinks with no mistakes - 2

all of them give back to the land - 4
and the land takes the water - 4
and the water takes the land - 4

smoothly that is how they give to the land - 1

that is how the land loves the waters - 2

there are no mistakes - 1

that is how they love - 2
in bed and by the edges - 2
the waters love the land - 2

all the waters are going to the ocean - 4
there is no decision between the waters and the land - 4
smoothly the ocean takes in all the waters - 4

there are no mistakes - 1

at the edge - 2

between the waters and the land - 4

it is the blood and the body - 2

the blood of the waters - 1 (different single voices)
and the body of the land - 1

and the ocean takes all of them - 4

at the edges between there - 1

that is the place - 2
where the ocean takes them - 2

smoothly the waters are going to the ocean - 4
between the body and the blood - 4
between them is the edge - 4
that is where the ocean takes them - 4

the legs of the ocean open - 2
and the ocean takes them - 2

in the tissue of the planet - 1 (different single voices)
there are no mistakes - 1

the ocean is the smooth bed - 4

smooth at the hard edge - 1

at the hard ending of the body - 4
between the blood and the body - 4
the waters are taking their course - 4
all of them following their course - 4
following the edge of the body of the land - 4

the land opens for the waters - 1

and the waters open for the land - 2

there is no decision - 1

from source to source - 2

no prayer no intention - 1

at the edge the body gives to the blood - 2

 

and the blood gives to the body - 2

all the waters are going to the ocean - 4 (loud whisper)
all the waters are going to the ocean - 4
all of them following their course - 4
all the waters all of them - 4