"Elegia" genre: Contemporary
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	3rd song in the cycle "Cinco Poemas de Jaime Manrique", for tenor and piano. Sung in Spanish
	Credits: Mark Hernandez, tenor; Kristin Pankonin, piano
	Lyrics III. Swan’s Elegy for Grace Schulman Lounging in a beach chair I am moved by the meekness of the ocean, the distances it has traveled to unfold in frothing ringlets by my feet. At high tide, rippling iridescent serpents form under an aquamarine skin. The sky is a luminous scarlet arch; the spring sunset, a perfect cliché. In the warm glow of the setting sun, the images are serene, gentle, stripped of all haste— the hush of this supple silence makes me close my eyes, and the old white swan I saw yesterday in the twilight appears. I see it crane its neck toward the sky opening its beak ever so briefly to puncture my heart with its desolate song. In the gathering darkness I hear the desperate fanning of its ruffled feathers as it sails toward the magenta shroud of its fate.

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