1.

As a child, she liked to hide
inside a pipe organ playing.
Doctors call what followed loss

of hearing. But everything
outside follows being
inside music now.

2.

An engineer
wanted a piano
he never played

out of his basement
after forty years.
Thinking himself

too old
to move it whole
now as he’d moved it

then, he took it apart
and moved it one piece
at a time.

He counted keys,
weighed the iron
harp frame he broke

to sell as scrap,
made a workbench
of the sounding board,

made a story
of passing time
unmaking music.

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