Glimpses

Noise

Warming up

Keys

Fingerings

Chatter

Laughter

The chorale

Stopping

Starting

"Again"

"I know you can do better than that"

Serious but

You also love it

And can joke too

And I love that

Chords

I pretend to understand

I know I will eventually

The tap of sneakers on the floor

The announcement of a break

Hoodies and snacks

Cupcakes out on the lawn

Someone's birthday

Watching the olders

The betters

The stop start stop start what are you doing stay on tempo tune again something's off okay start again one-two-three-four

Just like us but

I'm sure their music is much more advanced

We'll get there

The swish of a baton

The call for resuming rehearsal

Filing back in

Working

Dynamic

Contrast

Work with each other

I am not overshadowed here I am not

Drowned out

I am

This

Perfection

And perfect isn't real, they tell us

Perfect is not achievable

Perfect does not exist

We strive for perfect

I like our conductor because he believes in perfect

And pushes us to it

Beyond a normal

Philharmonia of adolescents

We will get there

It's always we

Because without we

It is nothing

I am nothing

And you know what

This community

We don't have to talk

Or know each other

This community I love already

I cannot wait to perform