I’ve Been Thinking About This a Long Time….

In the imagination of concepts
what’s let loose, is at once constructed

constricted and freed
the structures of intrigue
insist that all answers become questions

enticed by the Ringmaster
to look more closely, I
thrust my head further into the massive jaws of the piano

What do I see?

I.
a conventional drumstick turned radical yin,
horizontal,
at rest,
expectantly waiting

II.
a booklet recursive in it’s suggestion of sound
bound by deductive induction and
inked-word-flavored choices

III.
a metal Ankh portal
prepared to receive or transmit
held fast to an ordered world of strings
that for now
remain silent….

….Although….
you might expect a disembodied voice to
at any moment
drop
from a line held by a crook screwed up into the sky
(the old-school handset masquerading as a hook)

what you and I see, though, simply ripples into the matrixed vortex
of the universe that is
YouTube
as, no longer satisfied with Mobius relationships,
the dog in the tutu flies from the mouth of the cannon

and all the important papers continue
to wait, intent upon escape

while the sparkling pony gallops along the inner edge of the ring circling
the imagination of concepts

–Monique Avakian
pianojaws3.doc 11/2010