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A pretty song if you do it right

by Christina Gleason

These boys have short names,
one syllable
with a round vowel of a center,
easily moaned.

A soft beginning:
a sigh, a laugh,
a pretty song if you do it right.

A low lyric
in the back of the throat,
a rhyme to build up,
an arched tongue for
bait and a sticky
middle to bear it on,

a sharp inhalation
and then:

a stacatto chorus
and smooth lines
trilling their descant
to an end.

12/30/2003

Author's Note: I don't like this particularly but you keep writing, right? right.

Posted on 12/31/2003
Copyright © 2024 Christina Gleason

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