I'd drop 'music-magic' Janet & am a bit bothered by the repetition of
'understand'.
It moves there though.
Doug
On 14-Aug-05, at 7:45 AM, Janet Jackson wrote:
> I think this is finished now. Feels like someone else wrote it.
> It's full of rhymes and sound-echoes that I don't remember putting in.
>
> Centred
> 2005
>
> Knees slightly bent, body lightly curved around
> his guitar, held close, vital
>
> Elegant fingers on the Telecaster's neck
> lift and slide and press
> Long thumb and finger delicately direct
> the plectrum
>
> Face an intent mask
> mouth a concentrated line
> eyes lost in love with it
>
> Sound surges up his spine, through his chest, shoulders, head,
> into his eyes, into his hands on body, neck, strings, pick
> and by magic he understands, wire and amp and wave
> and magic he doesn't understand, music-magic
> into listeners and band and back
> into his ears, his body, into the walls and into everything
>
> Janet
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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