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Video Music:
Clarinet Concerto in A: Adagio.
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Performed by Jason Weinberger
and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls
Symphony Orchestra
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
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Elizabeth spends
summer afternoons
Leaning over roses and potatoes,
In radiant concentration as she prunes.
Zeno's thoughts are less with her than
Plato's
As she snips and clips in steeply slanted light,
Blessed alike by tulips and tomatoes.
Each creature yearns to be, but never quite
Touches what it is, as dissonant tunes
Hover at the silent edge of
night.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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