a steady supply of singers
songwriters buskers and dancers
a shortage of accompaniment
readers small change and steps

a melodious air of sorrows
entropy usefulness and delight
a shortage of handkerchiefs
space horizons and encounters

this entire (knows if a smile
suggests tragedy broken glass
betrays midnight solitary is
the last aran wicker basket

weaver the busker's very first
coin dangled like bait in his
upturned hat an atlantic breeze
against an invisible harp string