Barbara Guest

Dissonance Royal Traveller

sound opens sound
 
 
shank of globe             strings floating out
 
 
 
               something like images are here
 
               opening up avenues to view a dome
 
 
      a distant clang reaches the edifice.
 
 
 
 
 
               understanding what it means
               to understand music
 
      cloudless movement   beyond the neck’s reach
 
      an hypnotic lull in porcelain   water break   mimics
 
      tonality   crunch of salad under waddling
 
               a small seizure
               from monumentality
 
               does not come or go   with understanding
 
 
      the path will end
 
      birdhouse    of trembling cotton
 
 
      or dream   expelled it  
 
      parcel   on the landlocked moor.
 
 
 
 
 
                             explaining music
 
      and their clothes entangled
 
      who walk into a puddle of minnows;
 
                     minnows in a bowl
 
      consonant with water.
 
the drifted footpad
 
 
      ambushed by reeds signals the listening
 
      oars.
 
                             music disappears into oars.
 
 
 
 
 
      in the middle the world is brown;
 
      on the opposite side of the earth
 
      an aroma of scarlet.
 
 
      this accompanies our hearing music;
 
      the sleeve of heaven
 
      and the hoof of earth
 
      loosed from their garrison.
 
 
      dissonance may abandon miserere
 
      on bruised knee hasten to the idol.  
 
 
 
 
 
      and what is consonance—the recluse—
 
 
      entering and exiting  
 
      as often as a monarch butterfly  
 
      touches a season;
 
 
      by accident grips the burning flowers.
 
 
      in the stops between terror
 
      the moon aflame on its plaza.
 
 
 
 
 
      autumn of rippling wind
 
      and the noise of baskets
 
      smell of tin fists.
 
 
      and harsh fists  
 
      on the waterfall changing the season;
 
      the horse romps in flax
 
      a cardboard feature
 
      creating a cycle of flax.
 
 
              music imagines this cardboard
 
 
      horse in cardboard jacket
 
              flagrant the ragged grove
 
 
                             red summit red.
 
 
      dissonance royal traveller
 
 
                             altered the red saddle.
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