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All that remains: here in my afterlife as a 'mainstream' blogger, with what little I know.
#897736 added November 19, 2016 at 10:53pm
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Piano Needs Tuning
Posting for posterity...raw...

Piano Needs Tuning

Auditorially challenged
No rest for a beset mind
Scanning a dim-lit screen
In the adjacent kitchen
Each discordant key echoes
Off bay windows
into the open area Shared
rests between the keenly measured notes
Plodding along a spectrum of sound
sagging strings resonate inside
an upright Baldwin.

Once rich mahogany, faded by sunlight,
Stained by coffee, marred by the talons
Of unrepentant felines, sturdily depresses
The carpet, not seen in 12 years.
Rolled away once for an errant plane,
The boys favorite when he was four.
Dust bunnies act like mortar beneath
The tarnished pedals now showing their wear.
Music sheets land like his forgotten plaything
Stick out from bench and beneath stacks
Of forgotten melodies since his first lesson.

Markings on the pages more sophisticated
Hinges on bands of notes more erratic
Pages taped together like paper doll cutouts
Dance along the edge, daringly stare at the ground
From the edge of their cliff, never falling.
Their master deftly pushes back each teetering truant
With free hand Without missing those white levers
attached to hammers percussing rhapsodic
rhythms Begging still the piano tuner to tighten lines
For the daring, high-wire act.


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