Elegy
as if the piano loosened the power of god-breath to shatter like a crystal chandelier into this belly-releasing crush and groan as if the hum of ice-lament this artic elegy unhooked the glacier descending in beauty across the cold keys of time’s shoulder crowding the mountainous white sky with awareness as if a platform afloat a steely churn of sea and a man nimble-handed alone searching his life equipped with a concert jacket and life preserver might break barriers of sound to calm this ache and call back the calving iceberg as if his lush chords must have been born for this. Sandra Fees Sandra Fees is the author of two chapbooks, The Temporary Vase of Hands published by Finishing Line Press in 2017 and Moving, Being Moved by Five Oaks Press also in 2017. She resides in Reading, Pennsylvania, and is 2016-2018 Berks County Poet Laureate. Her poetry is forthcoming in Michigan State University Press’s Poets Laureate and Social Justice Anthology. Youtube: Elegy for the Arctic, by Ludovico Einaudi (Italy). 2016.
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Carole Mertz
8/30/2018 01:10:28 pm
Sandra, I find your poem quite moving. Too bad you can't carry Ludovico Einaudi directly into your chapbooks!
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