Joseph Salvatore Aversano

G L O C K E N S P I E L




I.


played bells

                  metal like w/

carillon rod tuned bars
originally played

tuned when
w/ tone




II.


spiel play.] [glocke
bell + spiel play.]
[glocke bell +

spiel play.] [glocke
bell + spiel play.]
(Music) 




III.

Clock, to call, as a hen.
see cluck. clock (?)

akin to klok clock,
glocke, klokke, klocka,

klukka, clocca, cloca
(whence cloche);

cf. clog, clock, cloch




IV.

gluckenglucksen,
klukken, klukke; to utter

the call to Cluck (?),
cf. klokken,




V.


bell music to cluck clock
                     klukka clock gluckenglucksen
                                                           spellien spell
                                                                            carillon spiel glocke

bell music to a hen, the cluck
                                   clog gluckenglucksen cf.

                                                                 spellen spellien,
                                                       spellian




VI.


you play
the bars w/
hammers

divisions
metal tuned
to scale




VII.


A 
metal
hammers machine:

its weight moved bars works hands 
works moving made moved

to the stroke
spring chromatic
a stroke

of musicians
struck by means of a

complicated mechanism

                                 diatonically
                                                struck through




VIII.


play music
               as cluck

gluckenglucksen klukke spellien
played bells metal carillon spiel

spiel music
                a cluck

cf. gluckenglucksen klukken utterings




IX.


those
not
soun-
ded
the
tones
of
those
soun
ded




X.


small children have complicated 
the known musical arrangements
w/ play & sound

developed to sound small this
children’s range in bell clear
view of the Alps

pinging true




XI.


a
sense
of
time

from
the
note
I
strike

struck




XII.


& so play
developed to
sound small alps
sense time the
note played
carillon
tuned

to play music                             
w/ hammers

diatonically
struck


those
not

soun-
ded


this



(Izmir, 24-25 June 2o2o)

Joseph Salvatore Aversano currently lives with his wife Asu in Ankara on the Central Anatolian Plateau. His poetry has been published in numerous journals including bones, Die Leere Mitte, E-ratio, is/let, and Verse-Virtual.
 
 
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