Ed Taylor
Ed Taylor
Irving, congratulations on your birthday...
DEVIL’S BOX
for a fiddler
Some put inside it the rattle of serpent,
to keep far the dark spirit its keening calls.
A daughter may hear it & loosen hair, turn cat. A wife.
Them as play it, too full of story & winking & easy teeth.
When they come, there is undoing
true as arrows from their bows.
Keep playing, maestro!
with respect,
Ed Taylor
(Buffalo)