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Improvisation

by Alfred Kreymborg, 1916

Wind:
Why do you play
that long beautiful adagio,
that archaic air,
to-night
Will it never end?
Or is it the beginning,
some prelude you seek?
Is it a tale you strum?
Yesterday, yesterday—
Have you no more for us?
Wind:
Play on.
There is nor hope
nor mutiny
in you.

Published in Mushrooms: A Book of Free Forms
Tags: nostalgia, thought, weather

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