literary music

 

I sat by the keyboard

 

with trimmed nails to stop the clatter

 

where my hands had been before

 

 

etudes and scales

 

and proper fingering

 

both kinds of keyboards

 

 

I wrote poetry and short stories

 

recipies, crimes

 

and children's tales

 

 

at the back of my mind

 

the music of words





Poetry by Katarina Wikholm
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Written on 2012-12-27 at 15:09

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I'm a bit musically challenged, so I am also a bit envious of those who hear the music in words and can sit down at the keyboard (the black and white one), and express thoughts. But, glad for you.
2012-12-27


countryfog
So many years ago now I too played "both kinds of keyboards," practicing piano and pecking away at my grandmother's old typewriter, learning that both notes and words were things to be touched, tones and rhythms and textures and forms, how both were a way of becoming in touch with myself. And still are.
2012-12-27