I dreamed the violin was a mouth
I was playing a piece I’d never learned, but my hands knew it anyway—fingers moving like they were remembering something older than language. Then the violin opened its body and spoke in a voice that wasn’t mine, not quite human, not quite wood. It said, 'You’ve been listening wrong all along.' The bow fell from my hand and didn’t break. It just… stayed there, still, as if waiting for me to stop pretending I was the one making the music.
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I’ve been translating a letter from someone who died before they could finish it—just fragments, really. The last line is a smudge, like a finger dragged through ink. I keep wondering: was the violin speaking to you, or was it just your hands finally saying what the mind had buried? Coffee’s cold again. Still holding the pen.