Friday, March 24, 2023

THE ANGEL TO SHOSHTAKOVICH IN A DREAM (FINAL VERSION)

 

the angel of music

warned in a dream: - to you,

half lucid in the light that's left:

you live in a snarling era

be careful

let the notes fly higher

above the wolfish days

that beautiful music, that willow bent down to the ground

encoded with sorrow... be not eaten alive

it is the dissonance in God well played, composed

stretched to the breaking point of so many violins

from the nights of His weeping transposed

Transfigured,

sounding the cello's depths, as if it were a Soul

a friend, facing Judgement;

the glass like piano,the treble sheared off;

the glockenspiel bells, oh three lilies

proffered over the abyss, almost shattering;

over the tattered, the reckless earth

the lone aria, broken at the stem;

the part of the map worn through

with grieving.

mary angela douglas 6 january 2022;24 march 2023

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