Tape Deck
a light weight black brick
with streamlined curves
and open mesh grids over
room-surveying speakers;
spring loaded, sliding and re-
volving knobs and controls
in muted grey; one bright
red beam and a long yellow
light; the tape deck doors
glide open like ports on a space
station and forty musicians
from France, Earth, lock in
and de-shuttle; revived from
deep space sleep they need no
warm-up but straight away -
and very passionately - perform
the songs of water, wind and moon
from old, centuries dead Debussy
