Can I so late
Set apart—Appropriate?
Make the past
A prop
A shimmering in a song contest
A recording set to repeat
An unused typewriter sounding into the night
A dream of listeners
To an aria of influence
With the gall for ornamentation.
Can I so late
Risk voice?
A recital with a candelabra
Liberace set for a final desert run
A homage to twin Magda’s authenticity
Addressing the evening star
With a tempered Wolfram
Whose top is shot.
Can I so late
Expand?
Extemporize Schubert’s questing form
Sight reading too fast
Past the threatening three against two
A sonata’s trial
Without verdicts.
Can I so late
Hear others with utility?
Judge wisely motives
Mix the roles
Save the voice
That it Punctuate.
Even if so late
Punctuate.
