alliteration
if it be natural
is a real Beauty
playing on the same letter
or, rather, the same sound
a system of writing in which
a system of dots, dashes and spaces
Braille says to Morse: dot
Morse answers Braille: space
the signal sounds read by touch
answered by alphabets of notes
one rhyming with the other
the memory of string on finger
to be marked
by any smallish glyph, a glyph, again
finger and a word for this
words, the callused hands of love to kiss
the dusty bones of love to play
to read the face of music
read to me again
sing again
Born and raised in Florida, Nicole Brodsky currently lives and teaches
in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Arshile, Crack, Coracle,
Fourteen Hills, and Transfer; and her first book, getting
word, received the 1998 Michael Rubin Award. When Nicole is not
writing about herself in her poetry and bios, she tries writing songs
on her guitar, which are, of course, about her.
