Christine Knight
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Two poems by Christine Knight
Piano tuner Your hands were the lastto stroke the dustfrom my yellowing keys,to lift my inlaid panels withlong-fingered practised ease.In dreams I feel your palms slide downmy scarred and creaking walnut sides— and so I plot to loosenstrings, unwind my hair,let slack wires call you backbefore your neatly lettered time,bringing your case of instrumentsto tweak…