Poems of Our Climate: The piano is all the body cannot do – The Wesleyan Argus

c/o Leo Egger About the Column: Poems of Our Climate is a weekly poetry column run by Oliver Egger ’23. Egger also runs the literary magazine group Route 9, whose literary magazine The Lavender is opening submissions for volume 4, which is focusing on pieces about women and gender! Submit and read past issues of The Lavender at Route9.org. If you are interested in having your poem featured in this column, Poems of Our Climate, please email your work directly to oegger@wesleyan.edu.  The piano is all the body cannot do By Lilly Gitlitz ’23 Every emotion teetering on finger-segment shelves fell   dumped  upon smooth ivory and stained wood. These patterned keys call dissonance pleasure and what if this instrument  is just a vessel for myself forging undulating autonomy? Stark alone, its identity resides in bowlegs           rippling body   brass honeycomb interiority,       the visual composition. Bloodied tusks and hollow heads and Earth withered to a stump  for music-poachers! New plastics! Sweet vintage! Do you feel Naked? When this thing shows you you?   Imagine if people made pianos from their own spine. Would we pulp or carve the bone? Reaching for the literal intertwining of body and instrument. …
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