Listening to Philip Glass Live

not my favorite instrument,
the piano - I prefer organ
or harpsichord for keyboard

but Philip Glass condensed
his whole careeer into
one piano that night

ninety minutes without a break

enthralled I heard bits of
Einstein on the Beach,
glittering fragments of Mishima

over and over and over

it was his birthday; that piano
was white, suspended from
a tree, a piano with full refulgent breasts