Performance Poetry

Here's a poem by LAW Fraser, inspired by a performance by Thomas Lauderdale and an assignment to write from music or other sounds.

Beginning Note

 
The note sprang from the piano
surprising everyone,
including the player.

It stayed in the air, spinning there.

It played within each ear
and sped around the room.

Before the next note took its place

this first note took its toll.

The second note was soft.

Soothing broken ears
and slowing rapid pulses.

Relaxing tense shoulders

this note fell freeing the third and
then the fourth followed by the rest.

The song came to an end

with that first note
no-where in sight.

It was gone and forgotten

as the pianist took his bow.

LAW Fraser

4/15/2014