Online Poems By Michael Palmer Essay, Research Paper

As a Real House

(Sarah’s third song)

"I said darkling and you said sparkling"

The play-house appears before us

as a real house in the dark

filled with people cut out

of magazines and postcards

and called real people at the start

Why is the curtain partly drawn

and why does the stair turn

to the left as you climb

and the right going down

Here all day it’s midwinter night

and the musicians will continue to play

in the music room

and sleep will never come

This is lesson three

where the fiddler is made real

by the sounds she hears

pouring from her fingers