Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Foundation Presents the

2008-2009 NATIONAL SENIOR POET LAUREATE
and
2008-2009 TEXAS SENIOR POET LAUREATE

Michael Gullickson

MICHAEL GULLICKSON, 64, Burnet, Texas is a retired furniture salesman. He and his wife Joyce, also a poet, have done readings in cities across the U.S. Mike produces a local poetry festival and magazine, “The Enigmatist.” He welcomes submissions at poetkind@yahoo.com. His sign is Pisces.

A PROMISE OF MUSIC


The lady in 101 bed B
is going to the symphony,
no matter that it is a memory
that drives her,
no matter that
the baton was raised
fifty years ago.

Her sparrow bones show through
the thin gown;
she is up now,
needs to find the blue dress,
the strand of pearls,
the white shoes.

After the concert
she will drink mimosas,
savor the melodies,
imagine the composer
weaving a web of sound
so beautiful it has survived
two hundred years.
So beautiful that though
half a century has passed,
it still rings in her ears.

We help her back to bed,
wondering what music we will hear
when the curtain falls
on our lives.

Michael Gullickson
Burnet, Texas