Music
by kathy barr
Her paintings
are orchestrations
of moments
days
hours
months
years
a lifetime
perhaps yours
Quiet down
and you’ll see the weather
seas shifting
darkness arriving in the north
a cloud disappearing
you could be asleep
or waiting for rain
Her baton moves just so
strings breathe
and somewhere a piano
is breaking apart
showering its keys
offering to distill itself
to burst the known
and distance the expected
leaving you stranded
in silence
If you listen
all is accounted for
finely tuned
soundlessly colored
Kathy Barr is a poet, printer, bookbinder, book artist and the proprietress of Small Plot Press. She co-founded and co-edited Room: A Women’s Literary Journal. Her publications include “The Hard Thing About Yellow” (Cheek Editions), “Marginalia; Diligence” (Small Plot Press) and “Exhibits I Have Seen Mounted” (Eucalyptus Press). She is currently most inspired by place and landscape and is exploring what combination of poetry, prose and book art floats her boat. She is the director of Old First Concerts in San Francisco.