Melancholy for a Dance
by Dale Going
the most distressing revelation has come to me
love is a harmonics played exactly like chords
whose strum is not one note and then another
staccato is the interest in a duetto so regular in tempo
boredom & lapse seldom dance a sarabande like language dense & pleasured
in this particulate field in this moment it’s just too much
and that it can happen all in its own context without outside
conversation
don’t I know dissonance and atonality also are available
au courante with a question set to it
why are grace note
ornament turn trill
like a fan in a hand flourished
still so essentially flat