Elephant Rocks: Poems by Kay Ryan

Author:Kay Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2004-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Les Petites Confitures

(The Little Jams)

These three pieces

in Satie’s elegant notation

were just discovered

at the Métro station

where he rolled them

in a Figaro of April twenty-second,

nineteen twenty-seven,

and put them in a pipe

two inches in diameter, the type

then commonly used for banisters.

They are three sticky pieces

for piano or banjo—

each instrument to be played

so as to sound like the other.

That is really the hub

of the amusement. Each piece

lasts about a minute.

When they were first tried

after being in the pipe,

they kept rolling back up.

Really, keeping them flat

was half the banjo-piano

man’s work.

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