The flamenco guitar of Ottmar Liebert
used to be the tonic. Now it seems so
laughable. Twee. Nothing wrong

with it – just too clean I guess,
and I looked further, listened deeper,
found more. When looking back to

where we have been and thinking
about how we arrived at where
we are now, the photo albums

will only show the peaks with
their views, never the gateways
you walked through along that road.