Ten Fingers

"…those parts which I couldn't actually hear sounded best of all." (Glenn Gould)

practice all the more essential
after you can already play it
every other episode smudged
as if I hadn't done it before
the turn that makes it Mozart
tripping me eacb time it comes

imagine if I could concentrate
how perfectly the notes arise
so Beethoven builds his house
nailing intention with gestures
of ten fingers body and mind
momentarily musically one