Yehudi Menuhin Remembered

(22 April 1916 - 12 March 1999)

Our
last
meeting
Menuhin
the maestro and me
alone before the film crew came.
I was looking for shots of leaf buds on bare-branched trees.
Would you mind if I come with you?
his voice, like a child's.
Can I play?
The gift
of
age.

The
lane
Surrey
beech hedge brown.
We talked about Spring
in melancholy February,
Yehudi and I didn't know this was the last time.
Serenity walked there with us,
the sky frozen white,
season's end,
Karma's
death
smile.