In My Secret Hideaway
In my high school creative writing class, our brilliant instructor Charles Rockey had us take a poem written by one of the students, Patricia Newman, and create our own variations.
In 1979, I arranged seven of those poems as musical variations for flute and spoken voice.
The poetry copyright is owned by the respective authors.
I Poem by Patricia Newman
II Poem by Karen Croake
III Poem by Jay Ducharme
IV Poem by Paula Gauger
V Poem by Sheila Frost
VI Poem by Mark Rubeck
VII Poem by Donna Blow
You can listen to a performance here.