Breathe

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with this beautifully painted
and perfectly made flute
I profess my love
to you oh, dear
airy, light
and mellow
my poetry in music
gracefully penetrating
whistling and whispering
my love, forever you will be,
the lyrics to my songs
the flawless melody to my music
and as I slightly open my mouth
to blow air into this instrument
know that I have you
in my thoughts,
in my heart
breathing the same air you breathe

Almost There – and an Early-Bird Prompt

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  Transverse Flute in D-flat, 1760–90 Hard-paste porcelain, gold-plated brass; L. 61.7 cm (24 5/16 in.); Embouchure L. 54.2 cm (21 5/16 in); Length (with corps de rechange) 62.6 cm /24 5/8 in (embouchure 55.2 cm / 21 3/4 in) Length (with corps de rechange) 63 cm/24 13/16 in (embouchure 55.5 cm / 21 7/8 in) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 (43.34 a-g) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/504019