Flügel

the hammers striking
and a whole world resonates
pianoforte

Confetti

a piano plays
the notes bright as confetti
fall across the floor

Gymnopédie

Satie’s notes
rain down on streets
still gaslit
and drawn by horses
in happy melancholia
a stuttered nickelodeon
of scratched sepia
celluloid grain
caught and flames away
revealing darkness
from light
and just the notes
raining down.

5-7-5 (take four-hundred-and-ninety-four : forte)

the pianist sits
waiting between two movements
playing silent notes

The Piano In The Parlour : a short fiction as prose

her frail fingers
floated
above the keys
afraid to let them rest
upon the ivory
as the piano
hadn’t been tuned
since the day
he died
almost twenty years ago
and more than
anything
she didn’t want
to taint
her memories
of his melody

5-7-5 (take forty-nine : masque de femme)

melodic crystal
tears drop notes of mystery
played upon her cheek