crescendo, diminuendo, poco a poco

1.

crescendo

shadows stretch long

along lengthening sun

and sleeping things

crawling from the dirt

hungry

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2.

diminuendo

the decline is fast

from equinox to solstice

my legs, my arms

my head

sink into my bed

my bed

my bed smells of sadness

so i hibernate

until the equinox

when the birds fly back

.

3.

poco a poco

the cicadas will sound soon

coalescing oscillations

trilling to high hum above

the start of feverish nights

beginning fantasies

of rolling thunder storms

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Definitions

crescendo - the instruction to play/sing with a gradual increase in volume within a musical piece

diminuendo - the instruction to play/sing with a gradual decrease in volume within a musical piece

poco a poco - from Italian meaning “little by little,” used to emphasize to play/sing a musical piece “little by little,” for example: you can “poco a poco crescendo” which means to crescendo little by little i.e. gradually

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Enjoy some other, relevant works:

Excerpt: Neurons and dendrites follows the sun as it pulls and presses away and toward. Discordant functions, reactions, displays. Equinox to equinox — a gradual decline. Solstice to solstice, diminuendo to lowest low from highest high — crashing internal before crashing intangible structures connected through me. Seasonal changes in the wrong body.

Excerpt: creeping, consuming, settling into corners and folds

Excerpt: At once hazy and clear, cordgrass softly rattles from a salt laden breeze, brushing against each other. Close and distant, spring peepers call to each other in startling loud cacophony. Crickets trill in single, thrumming notes - pausing when an owl call pushes past or the lone human in dark clothes walks by in careful, plodding steps.

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Illustration by Chaia Levi.

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