This is a palette cleanser, brushes at the ready...

The other night I went to hear an Andean ensemble...

The scream of the avant-garde
withers into whispers and coughs...

wooden words would lack...

Nala’s skateboard hits the raised lip of an uneven sidewalk that catapults her forward...

Your rake scratching half-thawed ground
shapes a music too subtle
to notate onto a stave...

Economic language
with keen focus...

I’m practicing again on this instrument I couldn’t wait to quit playing...

(according to AI)

Geologists recommend we eat at least one small rock per day.
Rocks are difficult to chew...