Name: Snow Geese | Kippie’s Psaltry March
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: Many drives through Skagit Valley, Washington, inspired Kip to write this poem. Stanley composed Kippie’s Psaltry March in the style of a three-part Scottish pipe march, to accompany the poem and nudge her to play the bowed psaltery.

Snow Geese | Kippie’s Psaltry March

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Many drives through Skagit Valley, Washington, inspired Kip to write this poem. Stanley composed Kippie’s Psaltry March in the style of a three-part Scottish pipe march, to accompany the poem and nudge her to play the bowed psaltery.

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Snow Geese

Is it sometimes beautiful
the way our world is warming
I ask myself
driving through Skagit Valley
when all at once a thousand snow geese
land on a cold brown sleeping field

I used to have to travel miles to see
these birds in another place
but now our winter brings them here
far from their northern home
blazing
across our eyes

their great sweep of white unison
descending
their black tipped wings curved
out from inside themselves
so their feet may touch
—light and webbed—
upon our endangered earth

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from Solstice Fire, released December 21, 2019
(poem by Kip Greenthal, music by Stanley Greenthal, © 2019)

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