LeMaster - A Brevity of Music

 

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.