Twnga Twang
For Min Xiao-Fen
Play me a koto, a lute, or a pipa
But emphasize the distaff, off-staff notes, please.
Someday you'll play like this, Merry
If you spend a couple of happy lives
At the koto factory.
So hit that box, too. John Cage kisses you.
All ancestors descend to our ceiling.
It is a healing all angels endure.
Grace is the primary element in sound.
So dot...dot. . . . dot
Tom Savage
A few moments of mandolin.
A couple of days at the 20th century harpsichord.
It all adds up to sweet air.
Good gods borrow; great gods used to steal, ahem.
You shook your box. I shake your hand.
Even if the medium is only some intermediary space,
Kimio Eto and some old pipa players
Whose names I currently do not know
Bless you with their outstretched, glowing eyes.
Place name here
Do not return to or for sending
5/27/00
by Tom Savage
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