Essential Ruth Stone by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Resonance

The universe is sad.

I heard it when Artur Rubinstein played the piano.

He was a little man with small hands.

We were bombing Germany by then.

I went to see him in a dark warehouse

where a piano had been placed for his practice —

or whatever he did before a recital.

He signed the book I had with me —

it was called Warsaw Ghetto.

I later heard about him —

his affairs with young women —

if only I had known — but I was

in love with you.

Artur is dead;

and you, my darling,

the imprint of your face, alert like a deer —

oh god, it is eaten away —

the earth has taken it back

but I listen to Artur —

he springs out of the grave —

his genius wired to this tape —

a sad trick of the neural pathways resonating flesh

and my old body remembers the way you touched me.

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