{"id":1437,"date":"2015-11-21T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.riley.rackliffe.org\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:59:07","slug":"the-piano-on-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.riley.rackliffe.org\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"The Piano on a hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Piano<\/a><\/p>\n

At the far edge of town behind all the facades
\non top of a hill of rabbit brush and sage
\nthere sits a Piano, or maybe a desk
\nall alone on a hill.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what it is
\nI would see it in the evenings
\nwhile riding the train
\nfor only 3 seconds at 79 mph<\/p>\n

But it would make me wonder
\nAs it sat there alone
\non a bluff overlooking the river
\na lost gap between cities<\/p>\n

Did somebody Dump it there?
\nTo throw it away?
\nWas it someone’s secret spot?
\nTo escape from the world?<\/p>\n

Was it industrial trash?
\nOr suburban sluff?
\nDid it once have a home?
\nThough now all alone?<\/p>\n

I checked all the maps
\nfor maybe a road.
\nI can’t find how it got there
\nIt might be real old<\/p>\n

I imagine some lady
\nplaying away,
\nor singing vibrato
\nloud through the hills<\/p>\n

Or maybe some old man
\nplaying old-fashioned tunes
\nin a ragtimey style
\nand faded black suspenders<\/p>\n

Or perhaps little children,
\nslip away from their homes
\nto sit on the desk
\nand throw rocks at the train<\/p>\n

On the early fall mornings
\nI know it’s still there
\nthough cloaked in the darkness
\njust waiting with care<\/p>\n

In sunshine and clouds
\nrain pattering on the finish
\nslowly melting the molecules
\nback into the earth<\/p>\n

So I sit on my train
\nas the worlds wisp on by
\nSome lost in the earth
\nmost lost in the past<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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