One of the Black Arts

Brooklyn Symphony's boa constrictor

uncoiling heretic variations

conjures in air the vanishing writ

once traced upon the waters.

Waggling allegro furioso,

her fleshly encapsulation of theme

sketched by the moving finger
unhinges from palm, crests and crashes
upon the white-robed merrymakers
causing some precipitously

to swallow

their hot cocoa.

The resulting rumble of chaos jolts

loose all the laboratory cage latches,

freeing a river of white mice which pours

into the right atrium of a child’s

sick, sick heart.

Bystanders at the scene patiently witness

the condensation of dew

upon the conductor’s brows and eyelashes,

later identified through forensics

as the simple

solution

of djinn and water.