Sanctified Clash of Keys in the Ballet Petrushka

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The skylark sings above the urban square

Of green and oaks enclosed within the streets

And offices and houses.  Everywhere

The skylark lives — he sings.  His singing greets

The morning, noon and afternoon and lends

Its message even to the railway line

And station.  Skylarks’ note-filled singing sends

Mixed melodies to towns and makes a shrine

To beauty even where the clacking sound

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Of magpies blends as part of symphonies

Of birds and trains and vans.  The whole is crowned

By angel skylark chants in April’s breeze.

  Competing keys make clashing music notes

    Anointed by the skylarks’ holy throats.

© Phillip Whidden