Donald Mace Williams

Mozart’s Piano

Surely there slumbers, deep in wood,
a shred of sound his fingers struck.
Start cloning, science, hide for good
other pursuits in compu-muck.

I don’t want AI’s summoned psalms
on depths its icy brain has plumbed,
but revenant music: Handel, Brahms,
what tunes the Lascaux painters hummed.  

Donald Mace Williams lives in Austin, Texas, and is the translator of Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke: A 150th Anniversary Reader. He was mostly a newspaper writer and editor, before.