CRESCENDO, by Tugrul Tanyol

Posted on August 28, 2019

music pouring from the open window

falls on the courtyard’s naked stones

it changes the black and white stones

to colors.

the child at play on the stones

chooses his moves with care

the earth recedes,

sometimes his jumps

make a space

in the midst of joy

the cat that stays stuck to the wall

suddenly springs

the pigeon flies far away

where the child ran the stones

change suddenly to a giant wave

it becomes a mermaid, a froth of foam, a

shadow

a winged horse

leaps through the open window

and strikes us in the face,

life like an unexpected kiss