Poetry Pick

BACH: PARTITA

by Ken Samberg
New York, USA

Autumn: the sky gray, raindrop
streaking the window pane
a gull crossing the sky

(Janet, in the shadow of the room,
says, Make love to me.
I stand up, draw the shade ...)

No. I don't stand up
and draw the shade;
Janet is not in the room.
The gray of the sky darkens
as evening approached
and the partita, insistent,
draws to a close ...


 
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