Silvia’s Voice


By Carol Fondiller

a large round balloon of sound
filling the sad heart with warm
full notes


a petulant god said
why should they have all the fun?
the goddess said
you need her heart her soul
to get you through the never
ending songs of praise of the
flawless falsettos of feathered angels
you need her to get you through
the boring Hell of endless
Paradise
she’ll come up here and rumble through your choir with her
contralto
and pieces of heaven will shake
loose
down to savage Earth.
They need it down
there.

Posted: Tue - July 1, 2003 at 06:16 PM          


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