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Martha Hill Duncan
Graphite Publishing
She Marries a Violinist
“My violinist is a darkened boat, and I am what I have become, a duet polishing the hard lake of departure.”
SSAA a cappella
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Her mother boils the telephone in tears;
her father floats silently over the pages
of his novel. They regret her piano lessons.
He doesn’t have a steady job; his violin
reclines in its velvet mooring while she packs
and unpacks the huge dusk of concert halls.
Her parents drive love like a heavy car;
she plays the back seat game and says
what is almost on the tip of her tongue:
“I love you both” means “My violinist is
a darkened boat, and I am what I have become,
a duet polishing the hard lake of departure.”
– David Swanger
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