Christmas concert

Audience is sprinkled

like hundreds and thousands lollies

on a grass green slice of bread.

Silver flutes are silhouetted

against silver points of stars.

They test the velvet-lined

upside-down bowl-shaped sky.

The band strikes up…..

Voices strum and swell

to the trill of flutes

then to the hum of guitars

The crowd is like teased out tufts

of coloured cotton buds.

Audience drifts to Christmas tunes

The band plays "We wish you a Merry Christmas".

     Angels coax notes from sleepy children

Voices and music are lifted together

in joyful symphony.

Musical notes, children, angels

all float sublime…..in deep-blue velvet sky

The "edges of the bread"

begin to shrink as the night deepens

Suddenly

the music stops.

Musicians fold up their sheets.

The audience become pin-points

of light and stream through

black silk handkerchief

of night