cello solo

sudden hacks
nervous like city fox
under the humdrum hush
of the house lights

from lungs and throats
semi-stalled

then the crinkly unwrapping
and the hollow sucks
of the house candy

relentless
bronchial
incompatability

meanwhile
from the female torso
the atonal
grinds on
and on

only to fade
to shivering silence

before the end
and the slow opening of doors

c) Gwilym Williams
2008