Silent Flute
How poignant a thing is a broken flute!
The relationship between a musician and his instrument is as intimate as any he forms with another human, and without doubt a well-played instrument gets better and better. So how came this flute to be broken? Whether an accident befell it or whether it was snapped in a brief madness, it lies in the undergrowth to be ravished by a briar rose. Its sojourn is confirmed by a web spun deep inside and abandoned by a long gone spider. People ask me why I did not include one of my famous spiders inside? Well, this story has no sting in the tail. Rather it is a quiet contemplation of the vagaries of life.