6 | "The stream of notes" [pantoum]

Where finally only music might suffice
the words had always seemed a poor excuse
for meanings that by musical device
emerge alike a fruit replete with juice
the words had always seemed a poor excuse
bespeaking what they couldn't quite enact
emerge alike a fruit replete with juice?
the dearth of juice they'd demonstrate in fact

bespeaking what they couldn't quite enact
though wonderful they seem within their realm
the dearth of juice they'd demonstrate in fact
an absence which in end could overwhelm
though wonderful they seem within their realm
they needed music for their sense to shine
an absence which in end could overwhelm
becomes a presence when in lyric line

they needed music for their sense to shine
what recipe will serve as food? the distance
becomes a presence when in lyric line
the stream of notes illuminates existence
what recipe will serve as food? the distance
that moats the "water" word won't boil rice
the stream of notes illuminates existence
where finally only music might suffice



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This poem is no. 6 in a sequence, Early Autumn Pantoums.