The Music Stand

The computer room of a primary school in Wrocław in Poland on a late autumn afternoon, along a pale green wall a row of flat cream-white computers on wooden desks, each with a small monitor glowing the same soft green field, grey cables with round plugs linking them, in front on the teacher's desk the same computer with a grey double disk drive beside it, its front a black grained keyboard panel with black keys, every key plain smooth and unmarked, rising from its top a bent black wire music stand, bare and empty, an adult hand in a grey cardigan sleeve on the keys, low golden sun through tall windows.