The Maynard
Spring 2016

{images in a 4/4 measure,
common time,
the count that skips
or stretches, floats
or sinks.}

1

piano strings
cut and tied,
dangle snowflakes
from a child’s mobile

2

the middle C endures
my thumbprint

3

this key removed,
like yanking
a tooth, a dark gummy
gap

4

a socialite of the future
wears ’round her neck,
this key, an amulet
{the piano key with my thumbprint}
like amber
with its trapped insect.

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rest