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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PIANO BURIAL, by EDA LOU WALTON
First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing
Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence
First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing
Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence
Empty the garden where I played your singing,
Empty the garden now become a graveyard,
Deep in the earth strings rust and ivory ages,
Into the soul of music worms have eaten.
Over the keyboard I have planted iris,
Into the body I have sunk a pool.
Here are all echoes frozen into dancers,
Ecstatic marble elegantly cool.
Circling the garden I have reared a boundary
The Yellow Book and sunflowers,
Kansas and yellow journals,
Honey, butter and yellow-jackets,
Canary cottage, cages and circus-wagons:
Whole worlds of flaming yellow fire --
And oblivion, yellow with the dust of ages!
. . . We drove out miles this afternoon
To see the yellow in the woods:
Mountains-sides of aspen.
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