1987
Mozart’s Fingers
August 1987


“Mozart’s Fingers,” New Era, Aug. 1987, 25

Mozart’s Fingers

Mozart’s fingers told the paper

What his brain was thinking—

Put melodic mist

And permeating emotion

Into black notes imprisoned

In staff-cages.

Mozart’s instruments

Told the world what his notes

Were doing,

Translating the concrete

Back to gorgeous

Abstractness.