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[A cluster of small poems from Beth Levin, pianist,
recording artist, La Folia contributor and teacher. Ed.]
Beauties
Poems by Beth Levin
[January 2010.]
Little ZaZa
lost in the Turkish March
later sketches a vase
Matisse
Liam laughs quietly
at my fervor
still doesn’t feel
I suffer
Ashley has no piano
masters a Bach minuet
I look on eBay for a used spinet
Chris, my shore bird
grew up in Japan
technique only beginning
has exotic legs
Isabella alters the rhythm
I let her
sassier her way
Jeff’s thumb dangles below the keyboard
my silent gasp
I remind him hold an invisible peach
the master class silent
Jeremy 12 shirt and tie plays perfect Bach
barely audible sighs
a valley girl
a Brahms Intermezzo
a question of light years
A.O. comes to music
as a respite from words
a Schubert Impromptu
flows away from a deadline
Soon-Ji in satin slippers
Competition Mozart
no hint of lah-di-dah
her mother just outside the door
[More articles by
Beth Levin.]
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