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She Sounds Like Joni Mitchell Singing in a Taxi Whenever It Rains

Kyle Hemmings

    I love the way she plays guitar. Behind alabaster walls, I’m almost blind but I won’t fall down. An ear to the crack. Finger to fret, 3 octave range, the song about a woman who loved too hard and in the end could only see herself. Someday I’ll work up the nerve to knock on her door and invite her in for Sweet Southern Tea. Set those chords free. I’m so rusty at conversation. How’s this: Someday I’m going to run to Canada. Way up North. Do they have cats on those arctic islands? I’ll study their mating habits. I wonder if they can sing each other’s voice. Or—Did you ever streak when you were young? I did. It’s how I lost a good portion of my sight. I was chased into a brick wall by a jealous king of penguins. From then on, I could only see sideways. But I won’t ask her in today. Today, like most days, I’ll remain the nameless listener. She’ll sing about her ex-lovers, cold islands, whistles in the night. I wish I could play guitar like her. Truth is I don’t play guitar at all. Truth is there are probably no cats or penguins in the Arctic. But at night, after the penguins have gone to sleep and Arctic Canada is one big hushed mother with arms outstretched, I fantasize. I’m a musician. I love to improvise. Early morning fog, she drops a coin in my hat. She says she has a day job. Off to Nova Scotia. Lots of men watching Impressionistic sunsets, islands within islands. She can’t spend the day listening to sad songs. We might sing each other: her contralto is my baritone. I would love to play her piccolo.



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