Liquid silk drips from my fingers
My thirty eager fingers
Playing thirty eager chords
on my white and sprawling harp
Plucking at the strings
Like threads fine
silver and white
they shine
(it is night)
It is night and the world is dark
but for glimmering on my harp a single light
lamp like spotlight, hot overhead
i stretch my toes where they balance me on the ropes
sitting by cold glass
i watch the word go by
with my eight beady eyes
and wait for that promising fly
(it is night)
It is night and the word is still
but for my fingers plucking at the strings
of a heart-harp-home, contrast to my dark-clothed figure
silhouetted in the windowsill where i have a woven a tiny, quiet song
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Liquid silk drips from my fingers
My thirty eager fingers
Playing thirty eager chords
on my white and sprawling harp
Plucking at the strings
Like threads fine
silver and white
they shine
(it is night)
It is night and the world is dark
but for glimmering on my harp a single light
lamp like spotlight, hot overhead
i stretch my toes where they balance me on the ropes
sitting by cold glass
i watch the word go by
with my eight beady eyes
and wait for that promising fly
(it is night)
It is night and the word is still
but for my fingers plucking at the strings
of a heart-harp-home, contrast to my dark-clothed figure
silhouetted in the windowsill where i have a woven a tiny, quiet song
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