Musical Rightness in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room
The space between his eyebrows is so wide
It might contain nine symphonies, and all
The works of Mozart, or the whole deep tide
Of oceans that we label music. Tall
Conceptions captured in long swelling bars
Imply his broad-bridged nose. These spaces, brow,
Gap, noble nose, and forehead hiding stars
Behind it prove that in this moment—now—
I’m living in Absurdistan because
This striking, black-haired one is writinig prose
About how melody by masters draws
Out our emotions in phrased, grand ice floes.
Impossible, bizarre that this young man
Is not the total of composers’ span.