Where I Once Spoke Piano, I Now Speak

Poetry
Written By Maureen Seaton

stone. Where I once spoke cello, I now
speak salt. Where I once spoke oboe, I
now speak scalpel. Where I once spoke
flute, I now speak arpeggio, now fugue,
now biopsy. Where I once spoke waltz
I now speak coda, where I once spoke
time, I now speak cease, now sightless.                                       
I speak myself speaking hands pushing
hands pushing walls speaking. Where I
once spoke death I speak death squared.
Exponential death, deaths before death,
music where song extols silence, where
holy, where both hands lie as if hushed.

 
Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton has authored and edited numerous poetry collections, both solo and collaborative—most recently, Fisher (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos (Anhinga Press, 2018), edited with Neil de la Flor. Her awards for poetry include the Lambda Literary Award, NEA, and Pushcart. Her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin Press), also garnered a “Lammy” and was recently reprinted in paperback (May, 2018). She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Miami.

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