Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Christine Knight

  • Two poems by Christine Knight

    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…