mary jo is playing the piano
caught somewhere between displaying her identity, declaring ticked a box of some established value,
and actually playing a song,
she starts, rocks slightly side to side, i start to get hypnotized, she sprinkles some triplets of high notes in self-consciously but the conceit is endearing,
and then she stops again,
her flowers left to wilt on the choir-room floor, forgotten as the school day
(2015)