Van Stanley

There is a piece of Debussy

on my iTunes I’ve got no title
for & it starts with two fingers
like toes dabbling a glass sheet
that’s really a pond when it
gets moving — like all of Debussy —
& if I explain it might anyone
name it for me?  It is as exotic
as the pentatonic, but not so Chinese
nor so French nor the blues
& at 0:53 on the recording
you can hear how Debussy
could have elevated the accordion
by playing it at all, in some reverse-
invocation of Yann Tiersen, then suddenly,
Aaron Copland with a HYAH! of the
old west (when the excitement was new)
then something like his Passepied to
bring it back again — oh what is it —
about music when you got
no name pin…