Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Luther Adams for Voice and Piano. This work features a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Fred and Alexandra Peters on the 30th anniversary of theirwedding. Out of the debris of dying stars this rain of particlesthat waters the waste with brightness... The sea-wave of atoms hurrying home collapse of thegiant unstable guest who cannot stay... The sun's heart reddens and expands his mighty aspiration is lastingas the shell of his substanceone day will bewhite with frost. In the radiant field of Oriongreat hordes of stars are forming just as we see every night fiery and faithful to the end. Out of thecold and fleeing dustthat is never and always the silence and waste to come... This arm this hand my voice your face this love - John Haines
