Mozart came to Denman Island

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as 
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart


Wood shapes horsehair bow violin cello
wood brown holes and spaces cello sweet
strings metal four string instruments sing
notes resounding and bouncing of  hearts
blood sinew space chambers beating notes
sound hands fingers space intervals silence

Piano hands dropping one after the other
notes sound pitch precision ocean waves
washing over us the audience breathing one
heart beating mind memory watching hands

This delightful man holds bow with definition

Mozart wrote the score years ago he composed
we fill the hall denman islanders mostly over sixty
Mozart came to denman from  Spain to play for us
He brought his elegant delightful passionate wife

The notes to fill our souls right there right then
my dead brother comes thru the haze of density
from the other worlds of the silent dead forgotten

While music fills expands my soul core I hear
my brother say I am sorry sorry for hurting you
I did not mean to say that cruel word forgive me

Mozart thank you for your dedication to sound
to take violin cello and scores of lines of scales
Mozart came to denman island on a hot summer
evening amidst the haze of far off burning trees
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born on 27 January
1756
to Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and
Anna Maria, née Pertl (1720-1778), at 9
Getreidegasse in Salzburg.