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Four photographs of a piano: 2

Front parlour, 1934

Chris Price


The piano has a head full
of family photographs

a mouthful
of dead elephants

and feet that indent
the Persian (imitation) rug.

It endures indignities
patiently

big enough
to shrug them off –

the package tourists
and the tub-thumpers –

and stolidly awaits
better days, making do

with the occasional
attentions of the tuner

whose rough hands draw
raw breaths

from underneath
the polished lid.

 


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