in suspension

walls centuries old and unable to stand

the added weight of the hundreds

upon hundreds of pipes of cathedral’s organ rendered the instrument mute

for the pipes must hang

and hang they do

suspended from the ceiling

ingenious solution but so high up

few of us even noticed

the suspension apparatus

MaryJane Nordgren

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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