Tuesday, June 11, 2019

At Benaroya Hall


Sounds of sunrise
Burst upward
Through my feet
Shoot out my skin
In prisms of color. Peals
Of laughter smash against
The ceiling and rain down
Onto my cheeks warm
And salty like tears. Lost
In the days and nights,
Lost in the forest,
Up the mountain
Through the pass and down
Onto alluvial plain rolling
Into the sea laughter
Salt and tears.

I board the train to cross
The Russian countryside
But there are not enough
Freight cars to carry all the notes,
So I have to forgive my family
For keeping music from me.
On the stilted horizon
Magicians’ assistants march
Buckets sloshing to bring me
An apostrophe of wish. In
The end I am clean
And empty. The music
Chased out all the words. 

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