Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Flute Solo Through a Scratchy Record - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Flute Solo Through a Scratchy Record

 

From a tiny speaker in a tiny radio

From a broadcast fifty miles away

From a scratchy record some fifty years old

From the lips of a flutist no longer alive

 

An artist whose parents and teachers long ago

Spoke of embouchures and possibilities

Of lessons for however many dollars each

Saved from a job down at the shop or mill

 

And from the people, hardworking and strong

Someone worked those lives into a song

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