Anniversary Waltz #2

     Today marks one year that I have been married to Tiffini.  She's pretty great. So here is something I wrote for her to mark the occasion. It is inspired by Dimitri Shostakovich's Jazz Suite: Waltz No. 2.

Anniversary Waltz #2

    We turn and laugh
    from the shadows of the stage
    like a slow Soviet jazz waltz
    taking a wry and melancholic twirl
    through October fallen leaves
    and twinkling lights

    The oom-pah-pah band
    with saxophone and classical strings
    plays the middle refrain
    a casual circus carousel
    of dissonant intervals
    that should haunt but do not

    A forgotten trombone
    takes up the Aeolian theme
    for one more spin across the dance floor
    you and I together, embracing as we twirl
    through October fallen leaves
    and twinkling lights.