Tag: music

Bach. 


I left the platform and missed my train for a very important phone conversation.

As I walked back down the stairs, tears already clinging to my eyes from the news, of course he was playing Bach.

I stood and listened to the entire cello suite, until he started packing up. He looked up and asked me if I would have wanted to hear it all again, the same one.

I said yes, that I would have never wanted it to end.

Timing is everything, and tense is important, isn’t it?

was hurrying on my way to something. still,  i took a breath to stand still and listen to the sound of saxophone as it wrapped itself around me.

it was slow, aching, craving- the type of jazz reserved for the moments between dead-of-night and almost-dawn when the syncopation of bodies match that sort of rhythm.

it felt naked and blooming and vulnerable when stretched out in noontime sunlight.

so bloom, baby, bloom.

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

– Edna St. Vincent Millay

but oh what a summer i can promise.