Debussy’s Music

 

Full of un-deciphered crimes,

Debussy’s music makes you sad sometimes,
with all its poignant dreams of chimes

and body scents, chromatic climbs

and schemes and indigent emotion.
We don’t know how anyone can stand

his notion

of polyphony
all nakedly

exposed

and played.
He should have stayed

to tell us how to parse its mist,

or how to clear it.
In his absence, all that we can do is hear it.










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