you are rasp

a poem

Ashlan Isadore McHugh

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Jul 6, 2023

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You are rasp
  and furious tremolo-picking

You are vibration 
  and vibrato resonate bounced and beat 
    wall to wall   to glorious wall

You are burning round-wound strings 
  and callouses pressed and pinched 
     time and time  and time again

You are needle skipping
  repeat track   repeat track   repeat track

You are gaze on shoes
  pedals stomped layer on layer  on layer
    and   lush  washing  thickness

You are…