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“Thank You for the Music”

Read this poem that details why the speaker of this poem is thankful for music.

“Thank You for the Music”

Open letter to my musical neighbor:
Thank you for the piano recitals
through my open window on a Thursday night:
the arpeggios and staccatos and then the steady scales
filtering so softly as I fold my laundry
on the bed I will crawl into shortly.
Thank you for the violin concerts in the afternoon
as I wash vegetables at the sink —
the aching in my neck and the weight melted into my feet
being lifted by the notes plucked bit by bit.
Thank you especially for the opera on a rainy Sunday
that floats through the chilly August air:
the song now contained in my body with its
full-blooded warmth and passion.
Thank you.

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