Contrapuntal. Christopher Kondrich
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story I once told
Tim and see the path
up ahead that I’m
encountering now,
I haven’t had any
time to prepare
unless you consider
the path I’ve taken
thus far as preparation,
but either way I can
empathize with you,
not to mention empathize
with myself as I felt
that day telling you
that I can because
I did at the time
and I do now.
I memorized the
melodies of the world,
played them back
as I was listening
to them in real time,
the twin melodies
were slightly off,
one was a bit ahead,
or maybe one was
a bit behind, I couldn’t
tell, but this created
an echo that shared
as much of itself
with my ears as
it did its origin.
The melodies amounted
to gibberish, but gibberish
so close that I ascribed
words to it, so I could
take what I wanted.
The tree sang soon
the wind will blow
the leaves from me,
and the bushes rustled
remember, remember.
The tones of the day
were sustained so long
as I held my attention
up against them,
which wasn’t easy,
I wanted and wanted
to fall into the soil.
I was always one for
decorum on an aural level,
but this was new, I was
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