Robin in the Tanglewood Rafters

By Richard M. Berlin, MD | August 10, 2011

Dr Berlin is Senior Affiliate in Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. E-mail: Richard.Berlin@gmail.com. He is the author of The Prophecy, published by Pudding House Press.

The viola section hears her first.

Then the conductor tilts his head

and the soloist smiles, searching

for the source of the sound overhead,

out of tune as Harpo’s horn,

full throated and lusty as summer,

red breast puffed, beak aimed at the sky.

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