A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler

A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler

Author:August Kleinzahler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


CHAPTER 5

(HYPER-BERCEUSE: 3 A.M.)

Imagine in all the debris of space

The countless trade names

Jugurtha Tuolumne Chert-Farms

Some of these belong to you

Can you tell which ones

Each has its own sequence of microtones

Together they make up a kind of tune

Your tune

The ceiling and walls are star maps

Breathing, alive

Those aren’t stars, darling

That’s your nervous system

Nanna didn’t take you to planetariums like this

Go on, touch

Lovely, isn’t it

Like phosphorus on Thule Lake

Sweet summer midnights

Shimmery, like applause under the skin

Can you make it out

Almost a hiss

An old shellac LP of white noise

Playing in the distance

Foolish, troublesome boy

That hapless adventuring of yours

Be very still

Now can you hear it



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