‘microsonnet of musical terms’ by D.W. Baker

The Violinist
by Phyllis Green

microsonnet of musical terms

demiquaver
ghost note
false harmonic
dotted rest
grace note
movable tonic
white noise
blue note
half time
repeat
sight read
whole note
cut time
breakbeat


D.W. Baker is a poet and teacher from St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. His work appears in Gastropoda Magazine, Soft Star Magazine, hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Modern Haiku, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for Hearth & Coffin. See more of his work at linktr.ee/dwbaker, or find him on twitter & spoutible: @lowermelody.


Phyllis Green, from the USA, is an author, playwright, and artist. She also sang with a big band in the Gold Ballroom of the Hotel duPont in Delaware, USA.  Her art can be found at ArLiJo 123, Gulf Stream, Superpresent, Paper Dragon, Rathalla, Talking River, Cinematic Codes Review, Feral, Agapanthus Collective, The Ravens Perch, The Waiting Room, Havik, and other journals.