Bryan D. Price

TWO NOTES ON A PIANO

preserved undiluted light now barely-touched 

reminiscent of dust floating fuguelike up and up 

and now down-fingered apace declining in repose 

two notes on a piano bracketed by forgetting 

degrading over a length of tape or sinuous rope 

stitched together…two notes only an oath 

Bryan D. Price's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Broadkill Review, Posit, UCity Review, Diagram, and others. He lives in San Diego with his wife, a dog, and a cat named for Pina Bausch