The fingers that played the piano with nails
varnished bright as rose-hips are gone.
Nets of cigarette smoke held afternoon sunlight
suspended around us.
Room received the notes like a canyon.
Fingers reached again for the cigarette,
and light spread in slowly deforming contours.
Piano notes poured into the room like sequins;
faraway sparkle now,
and those fingers are gone.
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