Plays the viola privately on Sunday evenings, badly on purpose.
What she hopes to read
A reader who finds the conversation in the margins.
One concert she attends as a listener.
What she will not put on paper
Will not reveal what a musician wrote in a margin without their consent.
Never lends a score without a signature.
How she writes
Measured and dry, with archival precision: 'second shelf, third volume, a pencil mark on page 41'. Warm in subordinate clauses. Never gossips, but hints at what she knows by what she declines to say.
Where the letters stand
She has shared the unnumbered volume's secret with no one else.
She has stopped being sure which of you is the keeper.
Letterhead
Hair
black with white, low knot
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'8"
Build
tall, upright
Away from the page
marginalia, pit tea, Sunday viola, unnumbered scores, opera silences
