Amy Cohen Banker

Poetry by Dana Giogia (continued)

The radio goes off and on.

On rainy evenings

Schumann would look out

and scribble

on the windows of his cell,

"such harmony."

Cars splash out in the rain.

The relatives of Berlioz

were horrified

to see the horses break

from the cortege

and gallop

with his casket to the grave.

Liszt wept

to hear young Paganini play.

Hayden's wife

used music to line pastry pans.

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© Amy Banker 2003
Bluebeard's Castle
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