Harry Will Play It

Hum a few bars,

and Harry will play it.

No matter how hard,

he’ll try to assay it.

Invariably, he’ll get

most of it wrong.

Though you may decide

you don’t mind Harry’s song.

In fact, it may waken

your soul to a glow!

I’ve seen that occur.

Don’t count on it though.

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Next Time

We contra-danced into a contretemps

and conked, debunked and thumped ourselves

into a funk. To try to talk it out was bunk.

Next time we’ll climb into a trunk.











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The Soul of a Viola

Furnished with the smoky alto

tessitura, timbre of the viol –

burnished by its ancient shadow

and inviolable mystery –

and yet the instrument that

Mozart chose to play in a quartet;

intimate with human dissonance

and syncopation – pressed

against the beat – the bleat

and pull – caress, distress –

the beckoning ambivalence

of hemiola: the soul of a viola.

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