Bliss

By Jacqueline Jackson

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Bliss

My folks remodeled an old farmhouse

a mile from the dairy when I was nine

my cousin Paul architecture student

was a laborer every noon the workers

came down to eat dinner at our house

then sprawled on couch floor lawn eyes

shut for the rest of their break all but

Paul he sat at my mother's grand piano

played Bach Mozart Chopin I lay under

the instrument listening it was heaven

tonight I attended an Ettinger open house

Bonnie pianist beyond measure began to play

I crawled under her piano lay and listened

the dog and me it was heaven revisited

2024 Jacqueline Jackson

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