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Robert C Howard
Poems
Jul 2013
Pictures at an Exhibition
Poor Viktor Hartmann!
All that remained of his towering soul
were visions pressed on to paper
hanging in a St. Petersburg gallery.
Mussorgsky advanced his lumbering frame
along the gallery halls
searching for his lost friend.
Sonic images formed in the composer’s mind
singing replicas of Hartmann’s icons:
An old castle,
Children quarreling,
An ox resisting the yoke,
The Great Gate of Kiev.
Mussorgsky’s notes sound and vanish
as ephemeral as life itself -
passing into the ether only to live anew
with each successive performance.
Viktor lives!
October, 2006
Written by
Robert C Howard
Estes Park CO
(Estes Park CO)
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