WILLIAM FAULKNER'S WORK
(1896-1962)

You knew by the piano
the only healing
of black and white keys
was in His charity
like music heard going forth
as Will Faulkner
the maker of a novel business
was never to stereotype
our north- south complexity
how from brutality
love would lead an exodus
in notes from slavery
to a metamorphosis
in characters that live forever
from your soft mouth
with revealing words.
open for us
with clever dexterity.