covid music

https://youtu.be/uIYxD3uDPQg  VIDEO
http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung.jpg

because my playing is ragged
because i start and stop
because notes are elided
because tones are added
because i can't remember what i might have forgotten
because i might have forgotten something i can't remember
because my fingers might skip one position for another
because my fingers might add another position for another
because i stop and start o fear of dying and reconciliation
because i start and stop o love of birth and separation
because i might dance to the right tune at the wrong time
and dance to the wrong tune at the right time
holding time with the rhythm of my feet and thought of garden
losing time with the rhythm of my hands and memory
and memory of something i might have forgotten if i could remember
and forgetting something i might have remembered i can't remember
and the fingers stopping and starting over the days of the week
over the weekly days and hours of the days
over the hourly days and what has been happening to months
and what has been happening to years what century might we be
returning and remembering yes i'm playing the hegelung
and the hegelung what a beautiful instrument this is
watching my fingers dance the string and strings
losing and finding rhythm and memories of the dance
memories of the song and the grace of the hegelung
as the narrowing of the ibis or graceful bill of another
always another as my fingers move o i am trying to remember
to remember i'm playing the hegelung and this november
and this november and november and oh yes this november
and a tuesday perhaps or thursday so many days of the week
so many weeks but less than the number of days
so many months but less than the number of weeks
there were hours in the day and then there were more hours
there were minutes there were some minutes in the day
and i think yes some minutes in the hour there had to be
some seconds somewhere dust falling i am playing the hegelung
i am playing the hegelung and i am playing the hegelung
i am playing the hegelung i am playing the hegelung
because my playing is ragged it is beautiful
because it is beautiful
because it is the hegelung

o all the patience in the world
o all the patients in the world

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gloss: perhaps too poetic, an escape perhaps, perhaps just
poor playing, deteriorating body? i don't think so but
itdt (in these dark times) who can tell anything? to anyone?
it's a period of negative potential, positivity teetering on
potential loss, negativity harboring potential gain. i just
don't know none of us does, do we? do they? who are they?
who are we? who am i? now that i've descended as far as i
can into commonalities, i'll quit while i'm ahead.

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