HARP
Your body is a harp
strings along a sound-board
a resonator box
plucked with fingers
neck
flats
sharps
in the shape of a triangle
a hunting bow
troubadours
trouvères
Minnesänger
Monteverdi
Gluck
Berlioz
characteristic glissando
to stop the resonance
I lightly place one
or both of my hands
on the strings
IVAN HRISTOV, Bulgaria, 1978
Translated from Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
From “A Dictionary of Love”
