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“Music falls on the silence like a sense,
A passion that we feel, not understand.”

– Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”

Musicians are like magicians,
they conjure tricks in sound,
like a rabbit from the hat
or notes behind the ear.

Musicians are like magicians,
they redirect our attention
with gesturing hands,
striking and strumming,
chords become colors.

Musicians are like magicians,
routines performed as ritual,
hiding trade secrets in song,
Think of a tune
I’ll sing the one
you’re thinking of.

Musicians are like magicians,
their magic suspends disbelief,
their music a temporary fiction,
abracadabras of feeling
believed in for while.