It now resides on display at the Kennedy Presidential Library. It became a favourite quote of the President’s, and he kept this plaque on his Oval Office desk throughout his time in office. Kennedy by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who gave the quote to all new submarine captains entering Naval service under his command. It was inscribed on a small plaque given to President John F. “O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small” is the opening to an old Breton fisherman’s prayer. The magnet pull of it under the shoes of my feet in the Winds trying to write the high sign of it. I have walked under tall trees and heard winter I have listened to the tides of the sea trying to spell the Nobody? Who put the People down on the wire-grass Our earth of a turning ball – who set it swinging? A great I know the city waits… the next child waits… there
It has a contemplative tone, but with an underlying confidence in our universal interconnectedness. I found the poem appropriate for this difficult time. In order to accommodate the unavoidable latency in performance, and inspired by Ray Lustig’s instrumental piece Latency Canons, I tried to create a texture with a bit of offset between the parts already written in, so that the extra delays between parts would be icing on the cake. I wrote "The Next Child Waits" specifically for the remote collaboration exploration sessions that led to these livestream mini-concerts.
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