<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428461" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Piano Tuner’s Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That note comes clear, like water running clear,<br>Then the next higher note, and up and up<br>And more and more, with now and then a chord,<br>The highest notes like tapping a tile with a hammer,<br>Now and again an arpeggio, a theme<br>As if the keyboard spoke to the one key,<br>Saying, No interval is exactly true,<br>And the note whines slightly and then truly sings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sits on the sofa reading a book she has brought,<br>A ray of sunlight on her white hair.<br>She is here because he is blind. She drives.<br>It is almost a platitude to say<br>That she leads him from piano to piano.<br>And this continues for about an hour,<br>Building bridges from both sides of the void,<br>Coasting the chasms of the harmonies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in conclusion,<br>When there is no more audible dissent,<br>He plays his comprehensive keyboard song,<br>The loud proud paradigm,<br>The one work of art without content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Karl+Shapiro">Karl Shapiro</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428461" data-title="The Piano Tuner’s Wife de Karl Shapiro" data-description="That note comes clear, like water running clear, Then the next higher note, and up and up And more and more, with now and then a chord, The highest notes like tapping a tile with a hammer, Now and again an arpeggio, a theme As if the keyboard spok..."></div> </div> </div>

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