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Piano Fingers

a breakup nonet

By Sarah LennPublished 2 years ago • Updated 2 years ago • 1 min read
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Your piano fingers played me like an old upright

knowing where the sharps and flats resided within

the forte and crescendo of heart strings

a spontaneous melody of your choosing

scales running up my spine

oblivious to the different

tune you played

on another

heart

*Note: Instead of syllables, I used word count because the visual pyramid felt poetic here.

heartbreak

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Sarah Lenn

Using writing as a way to capture snapshots of emotion on a screen whilst life happens. And life has thrown me some curve balls. Always striving to find a path through the chaos...

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    Written by Sarah Lenn