MUSIC ROOM

       for Margaret West

unusual line-up
  variant registers
room opened out
  to the long, low growl
summoning friends
                      (one two   five)
celebrate those fugitive tones
  the vocal speed
click, tick, buzz
 wayward note, tossed
from an ear, ajar
                      (sly parabola)
flighty fingerwork
  ping, ping, pinging
to the lip
  propelled
                    outwards