Composition Katherine Charters Inspired by the hands of Joyce Carol Oates two preening birds flutter, smoothly breezing the room into a lull violin bows sculpting thoughts in the air with graceful exposition the cursive script of a maestro slender, vivacious yet veined with indigo ink faded on a page the glimmer quilled from those fingers typing away steadfast, intelligent or stroking a swaying piano, silk harp strings caressed into echoing the collective breath of a forest or holding a number two Ticonderoga lead barely shadowing creamy antique paper even solid silver rings adorning those musical pencils are light, airy and elegant poetry of the body titillating like songbirds of the quiet dusky dawn
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