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Listening for Another Bach | Poem

 
 

Listening for Another Bach 


Rain lies across the dunes

In slow waves, periods set

By reach of eye rather than

Force of nature; the day too

Marches in some self-determined

Rhythm, captive to your absence

And the echoes of a life

As yet unscored by any

Melodist audible in

The fields of our winter dance.
 

- David W. Mitchell
 

to David   /   to Moongate
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