Electric
Guitar
Those hands
are speaking like the bees do,
dancing. A steel word
steals from the cone of my amp, a ninth,
then this, augmented.
A plectrum
tickling near my tailpiece
implies the chorus
while the horns rush in for their honey
and growl there like bears.
Use fingers,
this is no time to strum.
Tetradactylic
embraces bring out the best in me,
and betters to come.
My rosewood
is wired for harmony;
my ample maple
body has luxurious and simple
single-coil pickups.
Shall we
call it a seventh and shed
a blue light slantwise?
Now thrust a major in memory
of the butchers boy
who whistled
this many wars ago,
which told how sweet was
love, were lips, before the circuitry
engaged him deeply.
Now bugler,
bend your barbed string for him
harder, till it cries,
and also for all of my brothers
and others lovers.
Ooze of
juice that petals clasped, a chord
like a piece of comb.
Crotchet trickle plucked by the bridge, then
peace to these changes.