Conrad Potter Aiken

Here you will find the Poem Improvisations: Light and Snow: 01 of poet Conrad Potter Aiken

Improvisations: Light and Snow: 01

The girl in the room beneath 
Before going to bed 
Strums on a mandolin 
The three simple tunes she knows. 
How inadequate they are to tell how her heart feels! 
When she has finished them several times 
She thrums the strings aimlessly with her finger-nails 
And smiles, and thinks happily of many things.