fingers on gut and steel
do fret such sweet sounds

midget digit gymnasts
contort upon wooden boards

put your ear to the f-hole’s
resonance, reverberate

inside is a small cathedral:
X and treble braces
sound bars and struts
blocks for the neck and tail
miniature flying buttresses

a glass awaiting water
a heart awaiting love
so a guitar awaits a player

is your god half-full
or half-empty?

attack
decay
sustain
release

such is the science
of sound

Chagall 2020