Bravissimo
At the opera's
denouement
the orchestra
wrings every last sadness
from the final grand chord
and the soprano's ultimate note
crescendoes
quivers
reverberating crystalline
vibrato through all chandeliers
stops
collapsing
into the speechlessness
of three thousand eyes:
cathartic silence
exhaustion
exhilaration
then such
thunderous
applause.
Bravissimo © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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Submitted: June 14, 2020