Sex or Music EDIT 1 (now ORGAN SYMPHONY WITH ORCHESTRA)

[kolemath]

EDIT 1

ORGAN SYMPHONY WITH ORCHESTRA

Trumpet valves,
trombone slides,
xylophone mallets,
violin bows,
instruments warming,
tuning notes,

the score opens light,
slow.
Playing in key and harmony,
the tempo increases.
The sound crescendos.
The swelling orchestra,
crash of percussion,
strings beneath bows,
baritones blow,
oboes, piccolos, saxophones,
organ symphonic
climax of movements.
 
The sound finishes together,
conductor collapsing,
orchestra gasping for air.





 



Sex or Music
 
If you are a violin,
I am a bow.
 
If you are a trumpet,
I am a valve.
 
If you are a trombone,
I am a slide.
 
If you are a xylophone,
I am a mallet.
 
I tune you, listening
for the perfect pitch in key
to test and taste the sound.

 
The curtain is pulled,
conductor and orchestra together.
The first score light,
slow and gentle, delicate,
easing into the fullness of a bouncing bridge, more
tempo and crescendo, climax of movements,
orchestra, conductor, one sound in swells,
fingers clenching
neck and bow,
horn and note,
mallet and key,
brass over strings,
the percussion crashing,
perfect pitch, harmony,
 
all finishing together,
and the conductor collapses,
and the orchestra gasps for air
and all in the hall,
 
renewed.