Piano Waterfall


Melody cascades like waterfalls,

white keys tumbling, splashing,

like froth and foam,

black keys like rocks and stones

water crashing, clashing, leaping into air

creating harmony bones, skeleton chords,

symphonic skin and musical flesh

shimmering, shimmering,

as if it is liquid.

This stream of sound

carries my ears to a cosmic ocean

where trilobite memories

frolic on the bed of the sea.

Two hands reflected in black lacquer,

fingers prance and wriggle on the keyboard

like tarantulas dancing.

Prancing spiders adorn waterfall boulders

building beautiful intricate spider webs

geometric imitations of ripples in a pond.

Ripples spreading outwards in concentric rings

more ripples and more ripples

spreading out wards in concentric rings,

beneath which…

the tadpoles dream.

Tadpoles swimming steadily

and trying to imagine how the frogs sing,

genetic memories cascading like waterfalls.