Scarlatti

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last night
locked in
the castle
of pride and
egotism
goes on two
legs
  Webern
orchestrated a
sky the clouds
move to a
bass
on
an instrument not
an oboe, gray
on light-gray in
blue and green
goes by
on glass
  Schoenberg
serenades with
a view through
to where
a girl
swings
her
body displaced
against the
pull of her
hands head-
high on the
ropes
  night
before the night
before last
unlocked the castle
of pride and
egotism
  bliss
clouds stand
and go by

© James Schuyler