Wild Embers - Melissa Dunphy

Gonzaga University Concert Choir & Discantus Treble Chorus
Amy Porter, conductor
"The 19th: For Her, For All" - Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage
February 28, 2020
Wild Embers
Melissa Dunphy (b. 1980)
Text: Nikita Gill (2017)
We are the descendants
of the wild women you forgot
We are the stories you thought
would never be taught.
They should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive.
Because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life.