evening music

Evening Music

I.
Black dresses and black tresses pinned with sequins
Traces of glitter sparkling like glasses of champagne

II.
Black suits with black ties — penguins with bows
Softly caressed the neck and strings
Creating white notes across the sheets on black pedestals

III.
Black heels and black flats tapped with the rhythm
Of the man plucking the baseline with nimble fingers

IV.
Van Cliburn on the bench suspended in time
Fingers free of the mistro’s trance
Aloft in that harmony, that sweet chord, whose black keys dazzled

V.
Aurora like moonbeams illuminated the souls of prodigies
I went, therefore I saw — stars born in the black night air.

by: mlejane
Copyright 2001