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Article: Incidental Music.(Poem)
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- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Incidental Music
for A. K. Ramanujan
i.
stylus bobbing
above dark vinyl
like a dragonfly,
Mozart, then Horace Silver,
their bright waters,
onyx spun across shale;
it must have been
the basement
used record store
on Hyde Park Blvd,
hubcaps and wheel-lugs
at eye-level; cities
seem so purposeful,
their musics half-formed,
urgent as traffic;
lake effect snow--the
day not quite cold
enough--brightens
the pavement only
momentarily, laughter
and exhaust plumes,
their sudden clarities
passing; across the Midway
science and industry twang
ii.
what flowers should ...