let us create a symphony

[Doreen Peri]

(2004)


let us create a symphony, shall we?
you play winds, i'll play brass,
we will share percussion as rhythms pass,
keyboard tinks and blinks of eyes with a fast
admiration of arpeggio – let us go
to seat ourselves behind the rows
of willow branched echoes, autumn
darted amid a shadow image.
you play the the blows
i'll tow the ride by a melody line,
my stallion, saddled
by leather ideas
and mane-
lined verse.