Seán Body
Synaesthesia
He sees music. Notes fly
from his fingers bright feathered
circle dark planes, open valleys.
One breaks, hangs
for the stillest moment
and is ice sheeting a wooded lake.
Barnacled branches extend
iced fingers. The stalled hand
an inch from her grieving form
stiffens, drops to this cold
room, the glacial clarity
of journeys back. Opposing
cambers spin dancers wide,
ripples that lose themselves
in their scramble for the shore.
In its high eyrie, the eye's stillness
has no repose, dreams darkness,
the bright note's shudder.
Alone by the crazed window
he's learned waiting, taps
silent mantras, turns
naturally to winter.
But spring will tout promises,
ice melt - a slow weeping
from eaves, from trees -
the river begin
its long journey to the sea.
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