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BOTHERED
AND BEWILDERED
By
Thomas Gagnon
As
each day's beat beneath me subsides,
it
requires a bell-pull at my brain
to
schedule for tomorrow's June day
sense
with dashes of sensibility,
each
day no longer a medieval cathedral
buttressed
by my engaged and engaging
students
of Romantic and modern music history.
Today
I wish, as I have wished,
since
drinking in my first symphony, to spark
some
emotion with orchestrated sounds,
emotion
that when integrated
someplace
in leaps across the brain
drives
the hearer to alter experience
of
each day that once was taught
with
paper hands on a paper clock.
This
heady fuel sends me by myself
away
from my partner-in-love
striving
to recall how to
make
chaos into creation
that
can serve for any day
that
rainy day, any season
or
lightly breezy day in early May
before
pretty petit buds
become
a green expanse of leaf.
This
June day, my partner-in-love
expresses
un-orchestrated turbulence.
My
beats and measures can rest for an interim.
I
sense a need to turn my ears,
attuned
to an inner journey,
outward
to her soliloquy,
of
passionate sensibility.
Thomas
Gagnon lives in Boston. While he has bipolar
and generalized anxiety disorders, he continues to write. In
2009 he wrote an essay, "The Three Faces of Facebook,"
which was published online in, the
Wilderness House Literary Review. In
December of 2009 he launched a blog of
commentaries on books of interest (thomasgagnon.blogspot.com).
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