by Paul Fattaruso
That there is a rendezvous, and inside the rendezvous
there is a rusting firmament, and
if you lick it
it tastes like a penny,
and inside it
there is a matchbox car,
and inside the matchbox car
there is a garden of perennials,
and a kitchen funnel
inside the garden,
and inside the funnel
there is a beehive,
and one bee finds pollen and dances
the pollen's whereabouts
to the beehive, and
inside the pollen there is
a shoelace, and
an elk
inside the shoelace, and
a meteor inside the elk,
and inside the meteor
there is grass,
and inside the grass
there are the bagpipes,
and the bagpipe maker
inside them, and
on the bagpipes,
says the bagpipe maker,
you can't make the highest or lowest notes
without making slightly less high
or less low notes first, and
that's one of the secrets
of what makes that music sound
the way it does.