Overtones: A Collage

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P. Youngquist
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Mom leans against the keyboard of the old upright piano in the den. She puckers her lips and gently fingers the valves. A couple of times a month, she frees her trumpet from the purple velveteen lining its case—out of love or frustration I can never tell. She stares hard at the bell, pointed somewhere near my feet. She inhales deeply, pressing the silver mouthpiece to her crumpled lips. A silent moment passes—torn by a noise pitched past the sun, a shrieking flare sound. Another follows and another, bright glissandos blinking out somewhere below middle C. They shatter everything I know about her. Everything I thought I knew. What sound was that, what cry? What aspiration to be free? After those initial stabs, she falls into familiar melodies: “Bugler’s Holiday” by Leroy Anderson, maybe, or “When the Saints Go Marching In.” I’m unsettled for the rest of the day.
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妈妈靠在书房里那架老式立式钢琴的键盘上。她抿起嘴唇,轻轻地用手指触摸瓣膜。每个月有几次,她把小号从紫色天鹅绒衬里的盒子里拿出来——出于爱或沮丧,我永远说不出来。她目不转睛地盯着钟,指着我脚边的某个地方。她深深地吸了一口气,把银色的嘴按在皱巴巴的嘴唇上。一个沉默的时刻过去了——被太阳发出的刺耳的闪光声撕裂。另一个紧随其后,另一个明亮的glissandos在中间C的某个地方闪烁。它们粉碎了我对她的一切了解。我以为我知道的一切。那是什么声音,什么哭声?自由的愿望是什么?在最初的几次试探之后,她陷入了熟悉的旋律中:也许是勒罗伊·安德森的《Bugler’s Holiday》,或者是《当圣徒们进军时》。这一天剩下的时间我都很不安。
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期刊介绍: SubStance has a long-standing reputation for publishing innovative work on literature and culture. While its main focus has been on French literature and continental theory, the journal is known for its openness to original thinking in all the discourses that interact with literature, including philosophy, natural and social sciences, and the arts. Join the discerning readers of SubStance who enjoy crossing borders and challenging limits.
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