Mozart on a Winter Afternoon
       

duo

Bows upon strings, violin and viola
sound notes light as gauze wings
of a dragonfly touching a stone
risen in the midst of a mountain brook
or whirling foam of rapids
loud as applause

quartet

Cello and another violin add
deepening river currents
flashes of silver scales
quick quivering fins

quintet

With clarinet the widening stream
flows past moss fringed with blue thyme
willow branches swaying to test
reflections in sun-and-shade dappled water
air echoing birds whistles and trills

audience

"Heaven," sighs a listener.
Cheers reverberate to stained glass windows

We exit bundled against wintry wet wind
with visions of waist-high sunflowers
sibilant violet surf rinsing white sands
a rare cloud or two sailing
faultless blue

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Copyright © 2021 Charlotte Mandel All rights reserved
from Delphi Series Vol VIII
Blue Lyra Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission