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A cycle of 32 poems ruminates on a year of driving with Bach's "Goldberg Variations" playing in my car.
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Variation 4
Climb into the machine
lift open silent hinges
its harp shaped dark
carriage of echoing wood
hundred lacquered layers smooth
key action pitched
to strings tuned
to hammers tempered
lift and fall
drumming
the engine starts
every move
a sound
chord change
peddle down
down the avenue through
architecture of sound
into rush hour
stop go
on-coming traffic
built for speed
to carry
music
of motion
on high
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