Friday, May 22, 2026

Francine, Who Plays the Flute

Francine of the meadows and mountains
plays a Western Concert Flute,
long and silver, like a pleasant dream
of a winding stream that never ends
its journey to cleanse the wounds of Earth.
Birds land on the stem of her muse—
students, teachers, session musicians—
before taking flight, carrying musical notes
to tall trees, breezes, oceans, and foreign lands
until Francine has played for the world.
Her breath merges with spiritus mundi,
plants seeds that grow into concept and balm.
They are the flower in Tennyson’s crannied wall,
the grain of sand held in Blake’s mystical palm.
They are this and that, the all in all
born from the parted lips of Francine,
who plays distant galaxies and worlds unseen.

~William Hammett




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