Voicings

On TV
Annie Clark of St.
Vincent
playing and explaining
jazz voicings with a
vintage junk chic
Harmony electric
guitar

The host 
a fine player
is attempting to
play what she is playing
on a vintage not junk
Dan Armstrong
Lucite electric 
guitar but

can’t quite follow what
she’s doing to make
that slab ring and
sting such odd
angles in the air

She patiently explains
and demonstrates
for him again
and when he at last
gets it she
riffs against what he 
is playing

Guitars and
guitarists wincing
with glad effort 
Expecting nothing of music
but to be there as
music expects
something 
of oneself
to be paid before
offering any greatness
in any increment
no matter how
small

A bounty from each according to 
first ability and then 
need