<![CDATA[And when the time has come to rouse the dead,you will not see Gabriel clipping an altoaround his numinous neck.]]>

<![CDATA[And when the time has come to rouse the dead,you will not see Gabriel clipping an altoaround his numinous neck.]]>And when the time has come to rouse the dead,
you will not see Gabriel clipping an alto
around his numinous neck.

An angel playing the world’s last song
on a glistening saxophone might be enough
to lift them back into the light of earth,
but really no further.

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From Invention of the Saxophone by Billy Collins.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148012/the-invention-of-the-saxophone

#poetry #music #saxophone #AdolpheSax

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