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ScalesWe're in class. It's test day; I'm playing scales. All is going well. There is no difficulty in this, not really. Not anymore, at least. I've become capable at this if not at much else. I reach the upper tier of B flat major--the same assignment as every year, of course--and breeze back down.

It's easy to learn something that happens all the time. After a while, you just know it, with an intimacy that guides every twitch of your fingers and laces every breath that you take.

I'm in G minor now. Natural, then harmonic, then melodic. It's a pretty gradation for something so melancholic. That said, I've always held a preference for the harmonic
21-10-2011Help me, I've fallen and I can't get back up.

I'm surrounded by dark walls and darker soil. There's no light in here, not really anyway, not anymore. There used to be a lot of it, I think, but it's dusk now. There's only a faint glow if I look up--or is that down, already?

I've tripped into a well, I think. Somehow. So the light must come from above. That much I have now, at least.

Tattered remnants of once-white sheets surround me. A beetle skitters onto my knee and screeches at me. I jerkily flick it away. There are more down here, of course, lots even, but I try to ignore their little cries.

Leave me alone. Can't you see that I'm bigge
the tree fellThe room is quiet.

No, wait.

No, it isn't quiet.
It is full, just discreetly so.
The air is saturated with possibility:
the (potential) energy of a seed in a new abode.

Then
up swishes the conductor's wand,
and up snap the heads of his group,
and soft, velvety notes begin,

barely audible--
panther-paws,
feather-falls,
nothing more,
nothing less.

The sound climbs,
it falls,
it falls,

and it flies,
and oh

Now bells come in,
ring striking tones,
(haha),

and suddenly it's snowing,
it's glowing,
it's Christmas in July.

The movement is everything,
now:

fall,
then rise,
then fall then rise,
like a musical breath.

But

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View of the very medieval Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi.

Assisi, Italy.
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