Memory is Water
Work Overview
Narrator and string quartet
Commissioned by the Del Sol Quartet as part of Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora
Text by Genny Lim
Premiere: October 19, 2025, at Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, California.
Piece Text
Memory is water
Weaving, snakelike
Uprooting sediment, rocks, trees
Penetrating dams, stolen ground
and manmade borders
Anthems of deception
Blown to the sea
Where hungry ghosts feed
On war’s sack and plunder
Hidden in a crack of light
A spark of morning dew
A White Wave
Rising from its depths
Crashing through
Wave upon wave
Unstoppable
From out of the darkness
A dormant fossil born anew
Memory awakens
Undefiled, naked
True
By Genny Lim
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