Kevin LeMaster A BREVITY OF MUSIC
You ask if you’re pretty,
your head adorned with a bright
gypsy bandana or a crocheted hat and
I tell you, beauty never lived
in your auburn hair, it was rather born
inside a warm glow,
filling the room like a tambourine
tapping its tin-wheeled tune;
a building, cyclonic music.
Laughter dances against these pale yellow
walls, streaked with the blood of silence
that thrusted its way between us.
Solitary words, Rub the future raw,
like catgut strings pulled taut near breaking,
stretched hard beyond the song.
Each press of the fret is a new rhythm,
running through your veins. When the smoke clears
and reveals your wandering absolute self
so gloriously adorned, sorrow moves us
around like furniture until pain is hidden
behind the curtains, waiting to be found.
Kevin LeMaster has had recent work published in SheilaNaGig online and Heartwood Literary Review and work forthcoming in The Bookends Review, and Slipstream. Kevin was a finalist for the Mahogany Red Lit Prize. His work in Rubicon: Words and Art Inspired by Oscar Wildes De Profundis was nominated for a Pushcart prize.