As I fall, gagging back, with her rock above!

with the teeth, gagging back, grimace wide

With the whites in her eyes, bigger rock up above

There are three abstract perspectives presented in BEAR:
The first alludes to a state of terrifying free-fall;
the second, presumably enduring an attack;
the third, describes a bear persistently climbing upward.

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."
Music and text by Jessica Mays 

Featuring: Reginald Mobley, counter-tenor; Francesca McNeeley, cello; Julia Scott Carey, piano

Performance as part of the Nigra Sum Sed Formosa collaboration between Castle of our Skins and the Handel and Haydn Society [April 27th, 3pm at Roxbury Community College]

BEAR

https://jessmaysmusic.com/

Jessica Mays is a composer, pianist and songwriter based in New York City and her hometown of Denver, Colorado. Her music pulls inspiration from the worlds of jazz, pop, contemporary classical and avant-garde, evoking a blended sound that is both visceral and distantly familiar. 

Mays’s music has been performed both locally and abroad, by a wide variety of soloists, ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Playground Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, Ensemble Lunatik, Blackbox Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, The Labo de musique contemporaine de Montréal and many others. She has been featured by a variety of festivals as composer and performer including the Chelsea Music Festival, Loon Lake Live, and the Cluster Music Festival. She has also written arrangements for both large and small forces on a variety of projects with the Colorado Symphony. Her music has received praise from such major publications as the Boston Globe and the Boston Musical Intelligencer.

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