This is a poem by Emma McKie. She was inspired after coming to one of the October shows. She is a Grade 10 student at Rosedale School for the Arts and is diligently preparing for her RCM Grade 9 exam. Emma is 15 years old.
Todor
I’m tired of speaking in verse to explain my descents and the colours and black and white movies.
Were you too?
Can you play them from those words to the keys to the hammers to the strings?
Can I lose my voice to the ears you remind me of?
Do you soak your heart with ice from the ice box— or just your hands like Glen Gould?
Tell me it’s a one word answer
Tell me my coffin will be a Steinway grand.