Your Music comes early, Grandson:
Eleven months, and I hold you
Through your first Handel--

Feeling you reverberate with the tympani--
Sensing as you sense the Hallelujah--
Knowing that you honestly know this Art--

Taste? or Memory?

And Wonder--wonder at the role
Of the Grand-sire.

01/05/2014

Author's Note: Holding my 11-month-old grandson through a "Messiah Sing-Along" 14 December 2013.

Posted on 01/05/2014
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