Listening to Mozart

The sun, so near,
bends through high
surreal windows.
A man in headphones
sits alone arms

hung free
long hands dreaming.
It is August
at the library,
books are sleeping.

Slow as honey
the man's thumbs
grow heavy
in the heat,
pulling his long

body down along
his bones where
dark inside
moves the cry
of a cello.

More poetry by Richard Lynn Boynton