LET’S GO MUSICAL AT PAPER POETRY

Noting

An ode to synchronicity

Poet’s fridge/photo by poet

There’s a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity Allen Gurganus

Sometimes it’s a bell ringing
from subtlety’s steeple.

Other times, a stanza’s echo,
sensed rather than heard.

Or a mundane chant
made extraordinary. Neumes
deciphered, morphing,

now post-it notes

sticky with incredulous conviction,
neon-hued, reverence-saturated,
happily forever-stuck
genuflecting carols
at awe’s altar.

Ah, the contentment
of letting go of listening out there.
Instead allowing
arpeggios of coincidence
to transpose
into spherically higher keys

Into odes to joy composed
to refute and scale
the congenital impediment
of being tone deaf.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022