Necessary or Not
By Sandra Gail Teichmann

Music can be melody, noted with staff lines,
a key, an etude, a harmony of chords
of congruity and of dissonance for folding
exquisitely into and out of resolution.

Abstract art can be a color field of blue,
a form from nature, fluid or static, a line
of direction and of misdirection for that
essence of unity beyond our logic.

A poem, a play can be words, nouns and adverbs,
proper and not so, like June when one might be born,
May while one might be waiting, or may as in maybe
you will please listen to my way of perhaps knowing?

A structure can be support, utilitarian, Ionic,
Cape cod traditional, falling down southern Georgia-
cracker porch and front steps, lasting and not, giving
shelter and not, necessary and not for now and never.

Yet man, the artist, will struggle with the volume,
the texture, rhythm, tone, modulation, hue, density,
expectation, competition, rejection, admiration,
struggle with the process that is the being in this life.

– Sandra Gail Teichmann lives in Kansas City, Mo.