A Literary Magazine in Support of the Jewish Community
Chamber Music
It's a little known fact
that the three daughters-in-law
of Noah comprised a string
trio. Even less well known
is who was violin, viola, cello.
But we can reckon on them
hauling, amid pairs of lions
and lemurs, the sturdy leather
cases that held their instruments,
strings, and bows, the scrolls
of music on cypress rollers.
More than that, we can picture
them seated, semicircle, in their
wooden-walled cabin, tuning
the long strings on the short pegs.
And further still, we may hear them
playing the prescient forebears
of David's harmonies, to be preserved,
along with two of every kind, inviolate
notes in the rainbowed air.
Linda Stern
Linda Stern’s book of poems, Why We Go by Twos (2015), is available from Barefoot Muse Press and on Amazon.com. Her poems have appeared in The New Criterion, Mezzo Cammin, American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Big City Lit, Kin Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She co-published the poetry magazine Endymion and was associate editor of the online poetry journal Umbrella. In addition, she is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan, and she serves on the Advisory Board of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference.
