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- mezzo soprano, piano
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when you leave me by Canadian composer Michael Matthews is a piece for mezzo-soprano and piano. It is a setting of a poem by Dennis Cooley and was premiered by Laura Loewen and Dawn Bruch-Wiens.
when you leave me
will you
slip
under
breath
leave me
where you bend
near
sleep
or wake
will you, then
slip your
arm from
under my breath
your breath )
falling back
into
small garden
carbon dioxide has
bloomed & died in
under my breath
back into when
you love me
& when you leave
will you still leave me
breathing will you
take my breath away
Dennis Cooley
from Sunfall, © 1996
used by permission
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