The Hidden Instrument

by BOB GALLO   Feb 6, 2026


Life is a guitar, a singing man
stretching like a crack
across a windshield,
like trees in the sky—

a guitarist’s fingers
multiplying in the Song.

A Victor Khara,
whose hands were never chapped
by American thralls,
branching like all trees, all roots—

a guitar,
an offspring
of everything that strives,

the intrusion of passion
at every point,
becoming volume.

A symphony of survival
in every plectrum,
in every triumph of repetition,
in every
inhale and exhale.

Breathing is not orbit.
It is spiralling.

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