Margaret Walther

Ode To The Classical Guitar
 
accelerando—
                  a tango of green, yellow, mocha eyes
                                                                                    sunflower notes riot                                                                                                                                     
 
                               courier of fecundity, you awaken in me longings
 
                                                                                           a desire for my homeland
                                                        your sweet residue—
                                           alkali, loam
                                   
tremolo—
              caligraphy drifts out, a script of bird eggs—
                                                      the specks, the streaks, the hushed blues           
                                                                                         
                          breezes skim spokes of a windmill, engraving
                                                                                                  mandalas
                                                                                on the air
 
              tufted clover nestles my body with cream
 
rasgueado—
              doves, mantillaed in grey
                                                                  flick a velvet
                                                    fandango
                                                                       the Mexican blue joy, a seguidilla
 
pizzicato—
             locust pods rattle, cattails burst
                                                                    cilantro explodes in my mouth
                                                                       
                                                                          willows grip a creek, an emerald
                                                    maze of impassioned stems
 
             sheep thread sierra valleys
 
                           lady of the resilient spruce, you enspirit me
                                                                                              with a gritty
 
                                                                                    adagio from the heartland
 
                                                    cradle me in canciones
                                      songs of salt                                                                    

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