I'll copy it here so it won't get lost again. It's by Donald Justice, and is called:
VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS
(For Thomas Higgins, pianist)
There is no music now in all Arkansas.
Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos.
Movers dismantled the instruments, away
Sped the vans. The first detour untuned the strings.
There is no music now in all Arkansas.
Up Main Street, past the cold shopfronts of Conway,
the brash, self important brick of the college,
Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos.
Warm evenings, the windows open, he would play
Something of Mozart's for his pupils, the birds.
There is no music now in all Arkansas.
How shall the mockingbird mend her trill, the jay
His eccentric attack, lacking a teacher?
Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos.
There is no music now in all Arkansas.
-- by Donald Justice
Bio from Wikipedia:Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He graduated from the University of Miami and went on to teach for many years at Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's first graduate program in creative writing. Some of his students there included Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Will Schmitz and Jorie Graham. He also taught at Syracuse University, the University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida in Gainesville.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Justice
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