STRAVINSKY

With boundless music

of energy in adolescence

from solo practicing
Stravinsky's violin concerto

in a critic's connection

on the last of summer days

under the Evergreen trees

and greensward shrubbery

with me learning to conduct

on a score
at my soundproof studio

that my professor left me

his European notes

besmirched by Russian quotes
 enjoying the sunshine

at the cleft of my window

with an enigmatic breeze

playing the twelve tone scale

allowing me to be instructed

and audited
in my Leonard Bernstein
harmony and solfeggio class

that I will not fail.