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Coda
by
Melanie Houle
Unsounded
notes beneath
the melody,
harsh undercurrents
in the harmony:
these were the
recurrent themes
that set
the tone of our
discordant history.
I'll rest in my
own measure and
reject
the push to replay,
analyze, dissect
what's past, to
modulate its stridency
or mute its dissonance
in retrospect.
If
I had improvised
a sweeter sound,
retimed the tempo,
turned the tune
around,
the counterpoint
would still have
come out wrong;
my rhythm never
would have fit
your song.
The curtainâ's
down, it's done.
Now it's my choice
to orchestrate
the rest in my
own voice.
©
2007 by Melanie
Houle
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About the Author
Melanie
Houle
is a physician
and former jeweler.
She is a Pushcart
Prize nominee
and The Raintown
Review's first
featured poet
. Her poetry also
appears in The
Lyric, California
Quarterly, The
Aurorean, Neovictorian/
Cochlea, Tigerâ's
Eye, Mobius, Pearl,
Barefoot Muse,
The HyperTexts,
Journal of the
American Medical
Association and
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