Gregor Piatigorsky plays Chopin Sonata

his long tapered fingers
coaxed the beauty
from
her shapely stradivarius form
and
she sang
and sang
and sang
her heart out
until the voice
like
fingernails across a chalk board
catapulted
us back to reality

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