Lance Larsen, a University of Houston graduate, has published two poetry collections: Erasable Walls (1998) and In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005). Individual poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, New York Review of Books, TLS, Grand Street, and The Pushcart Prize 2005. A professor at BYU, he’ll spend winter 2005 in London as part of a study-abroad program. Want Song Lance Larsen Two musics washing over me, and morning asks, which loneliness comes closest to the inky chromatics inside you?  How can I answer?   The cricket in the tarantula’s cage chirrs the next world. Meanwhile, scraps of Chopin float up the stairs on my wife’s trilling fingers which played me whole worlds ago, last night, when I was buried in we.