Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The Salamanca Reel

 

Fiddle, flute, the Salamanca reel:

drops of rain slide into line

along the underside of a mossy rock

before falling in the unpredictable waves

that breaths play in the crevices

between the rocks

asking them to go: now, go now, go now.


Swallows on a wire striking up the reel,

fluff up as gusts, minute as golf balls,

lift their feathers so each flickering a different

daylight swoops off

as fingers darken the holes,

strings flash momentarily

and see, the music moving through the air.

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