pianos on mountains belong to a long line of vagaries

left undiscovered but some few
find their elevation
in legendary remnants of arks appearing at the 26,000 ft level

down there on mt everest
 
confirming the postulate of eternal misdirection
while the emasculation of entire tribes of footmen

the sort of which proceeds unabated

trod nearly unrecorded erecting

displays of significance delayed

only to leave their markings misdirected
into song and dance

keys in the wind disimpinged but memoried
dink the hill
 
“Our guys couldn’t believe their eyes”
 
the pathology proceeded to find evidence of
“fossils”
resembling uncannily (and i mean uncannily) the virgin mary

under each one of those ivory keys
the virginmost mary
imprinted into ground

at first they thought they had come upon
a youthful prank

an attraction of the tasks misgiven

a piano on a modest mountain
a hill at most 
can be disregarded

but as each key was slowly uncovered

-and the archeology continued years-

the mystery of “the smudge” to some
and allthatisneeded to others

that can’t be explained by manufacture

as each key was minutely unique
and of entirely organic material

the whole orchestra of the hill
rose above the valley

in the city the great quake of 06
was reported to have killed 835 

and meant the collapse of the valley museum
obliterating the entire collection

36 individual keys (all ivory)
dust.