MOZART'S HOUR
JAN. 27 BIRTHDAY

If all the notes
over your miniature statue
here at the grand piano
were to play here,
or we were to review
all of your sonatas
or to share your music dramas
concertos or cantatas,
or I were to follow
all the Masonic chords
offering a choral song
by myself on the organ
I'd give you a span
of all the music awards
from our public library
with any critic's wealth
beyond any augmented hour,
or if my diminished words
could hum and deliver along
at your distinguished powers
there would be saved
one a day-long Requiem sound
with red and and white flowers
on a divine grave ground
in the sun shine
of a brave Mozart
by the Rhine river bed.