July 26, 2024, Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Piano” by Michele Rule, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.
My piano, always in one corner,
unassuming, demure;
finished with the friction
of relocation and small children,
ivory keys patinaed by
a thousand fingerprints.
No fancy scrollwork,
no internal electronics.
A birdcage of strings
and felted hammers that release
the roundest sounds, strike the ears
tenderly.
Ringing through eardrums,
tiny bones, down neural pathways
to caress the brain with
the murmuration of birds.
We love our pianos…even when they are now only a memory. Thx for sharing.
Thanks Laurie ☺️