<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px"><font><i><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">from </span></i><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">CONTRAPUNTAL</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
<br><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">That beautiful melody? It is already within us</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">Tim was sorting through his compositions</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">we need to find a way to bring it closer</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">to brush our end against its end, but we must remain</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">and regardless if I am satisfied with it </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">I have to abide by the metronome</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">I want to study piano because in doing so I will destroy</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">my discreteness. One is always concerned with one’s discreteness</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">this tiresome harangue of mine, would you believe me</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">just as I was reaching the terminus or whatever point</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">in the mind that receives it. Listen to this, Tim said</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1in"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">playing nothing. Do you hear what I hear</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p>
<font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-left:0px"><font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">I would have to do it myself </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">with my own hands, Tim continued,</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">sometimes I am struck, my chair a closer</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></font></p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:0.5in">
<font><span style="font-family:Tahoma;color:black">companion than anyone I know.</span></font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span></p><br><b>Christopher Kondrich</b> is the author of <i>Contrapuntal</i>, forthcoming in the Free Verse Editions poetry series. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Denver. </span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>