A bit of poesy (was OLD PIANO)

[Alan Barnard]

Cool. Goes into our St. Louis chapter newsletter ...



Alan Barnard

Salem, MO









Original message

From: "Annie Grieshop" 

To: "Pianotech List" 

Received: 5/25/2007 1:45:24 PM

Subject: A bit of poesy (was OLD PIANO)





A friend just sent this to me -- seemed appropriate for the Old Piano discussion.



by Howard Nemerov, past U.S. Poet Laureate



To His Piano



Old friend, patient of error as of accuracy,

Ready to think the fingerings of thought,

You but a scant year older than I am

With my expectant mother expecting maybe

An infant prodigy among her stars

But getting only little me instead–



To see you standing there for six decades

Containing chopsticks, Fur Elise, and 

The Art of Fugue in your burnished rosewood box,

As well as all those years of silence and

The stumbling beginnings the children made,

Who would believe the twenty tons of stress

Your gilded frame's kept stretched out all this while?



Annie Grieshop

www.allthingspiano.com
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