Bio
Patrick Pfister is the author of the poetry book, El Camino & Other Travel Poems. His poems have appeared in Sufi Journal, Gargoyle and other literary magazines. He is the director of two award-winning documentary films about poetry: The Stone Circle and Poetry, New York. His novels are published by Spuyten Duyvil Press, NY. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. www.patrickpfister.com
Patrick Pfister
Rehearsal
The neighbor plays his violin
most mornings and evenings.
Today, thinner than a thread,
a gleaming filament dangles
from the balcony clothesline,
vibrating silver, autumn sun.
Can't be yesterday's cobweb
or the day, the week before;
wind has blown, rain fallen:
in a little while it will break.
A finch alights on the line,
chirps once and flies off.
The note strikes still air;
the music dies in silence.