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Jenny Ahn
Grade 11
The Spence School
Teacher: Mary Frosch
To Entertain
in the sense of misery she wondered nervous music
playing a duet running the treble—her part of whether
lines or spaces had been weak the unexpectedly loud had said,
“her fingers had worked
her movements being heard
but hard till the end”.
someone said a nice touch had pushed her
angry from the hearthrug.
always the clear mass the fire the green
warming on blue tiles.
the room seemed full of stupid people
who made her play.
she had been noticing the forgotten guest
had the girls almost learnt
pieces by heart
through trembling limbs burning
--alternately thumping stiff and
feeling whole from wrist to notes
fumbled into each other.
the thumping began the musical evenings
by a winter she played to the effects
which she alone could discover her nervousness.
she had been miserable once in a way
that astonished her ear—
the notes laughed back from behind the piano.
