Tuesday, March 5, 2024

SPELLBOUND

The softest pedal 
on the piano 
must be down, 

smearing those unhurried 
arpeggios 
into clouds—

strange-
ly shaped formations, 
barely there, 

but half-occluded 
by devotion's 
hungry shadow 

outlasting 
my impatience 
and every expectation 

to have 
moments ago 
outgrown this fascination 

and snapped 
back off 
the radio.