William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

Tag Archive for ‘Ink and Pen’

A Spirited Boy

Long ago, in my fabled childhood, my piano teacher, Mrs. Crawford, told my mother one evening that I had perfect pitch. This was in my first year, when I used to sing with every note — not because it was expected of me, or that it was part of the lesson; the singing was a spontaneous result of everything that was going on — the sound, the feel of the […]

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Ink and Pen

How a bird about to sing, instinctively seeks the highest branch. How a bell about to ring, shivers at the hand. How a joy about to be, has always been.   How you are the bird, the song, the branch, the bell, The sound, the hand, the joy, The now, the when.   And how, and then, in one last breath, You put it down, and pick it up, and […]

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