‘We make beautiful things’
he thinks,
thinking about it means
to be a musical maker.
‘The point is not to think
but to arrest thinking’
as he fiddles
with a sound on a string.
‘Beauty is ever-open
to reconfiguration’
the idea accompanying
a plucked note.
‘Beauty thrives on analogies’
while listening to the pattern,
connecting the connections:
‘taste is beauty
shape and form are beauty
music’s time is beauty
sensation and its description are beauty.’
