The Violin Teacher/ Carol V Davis

Exquisite and rich, these poems explore music from multiple vantage points, teacher and student, creator and lover. Carol V Davis' poems have won awards and appeared in journals and anthologies in many countries, including Ireland, Israel, Australia and Sweden. Her poetry has been featured on NPR and on Radio Russia. She is the author of two books of poetry: Letters From Prague (1991, Chicago) and It's Time to Talk About (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1997, bilingual edition). A Fulbright scholar in St. Petersburg in 1996 and 2005, she teaches at Santa Monica College, CA. Concerto No. 2 Looking for a blank tape, I find instead the voice of my mother, dead now almost four years. Her message cheerful, offering to lend, to help. How ironic this silly call frozen. But I could listen forever, until the tape would crack. We went to a concert once, dressed in purple satin and raw silk, the color of fresh cream. Rostropovich swayed and frowned into his cello, the notes swelling through him, as