Still Water
Prose Poems
Copyright @ 1989 by Arthur Garfunkel
ISBN 0-525-24795-5
Used by persmission of Author - All Rights Reserved
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Now the side walls are
going up.
Piano, harp and vibraphone
in repeating
arpeggios
are as masonry -- a field of articulated lines.
Apertures left for a trumpet
decree, a
cor anglais --
Strings and woodwinds
finish the stone.
Through the clerestory,
children's voices
descend upon David's City.
Around the base -- a donkey
motif like a
tom-tom frieze in low relief.
Stained glass windows,
angel-drawn,
arrive at the site;
Echo and I are the colored
light.
Montserrat,
British West IndiesOctober 1985