Lightning forms
flashes down
dead sigh
Night growl
Catch a fire
catch a slide
catch a horse
Risk dignity for this money
Thinking of Langston
the black writers
poetry
thinking of complete
order and chaos of Stravinsky
sound maze
float a run
I’m here now
yesterday, I was here now
Hoist a feather
Blowdown a mountain
Burst a note inside out
Dice the math
‘Yeah, strings, I want strings.’
you can quote me
Don’t mess with the bassline
keep everybody else where you are
‘just bring in the strings.’
so can this document
the fragmentation
in our soul? could sound like it.
A hundred years from
now my music will be in concert halls.’
My lip’s going
but it’s fine tonight. Let’s play
‘I played with everybody, but
I only want to play with you.
Slow the speed of light
The bird swoops
soars and scares
Red says I can quit
but he doesn’t know
the homestretch of
this dissonance is a
melody track
I can only follow alone.