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| album cover art by Corky McCoy © from Miles
Davis ‘Big Fun’ Columbia Records 1974 |
playing out the rests, in my life, at the corner jazz club
I
slow down
my
tarred feather routine
my
boiled skin stuck
heavy
thickened
rendered
almost stilled
I
am inside soft covered plumage
and
the hidden ways
irony
is emotional tattooing
I
walk in and I am
hearing
this immediacy
the
plunge-tapping drumsticks
riding
along the rim, knocking
pearl
belly handling
the
go round
the
taut hide raw
ready
and waiting
the
brushstroke rhythm
you
find your eyes
painting
doll faces
in
the smoky dark
and
all we race for is here
kept
for sale
behind
the glass
the
joint jumps
when
another soul
gives
in
the
horns turn up
base
slides between legs
as
a song begins
to
sing sins
are
bottomless hisses
they
take all you got
teapot
journey
to
whiskey sipping
long
cycled time
intervals,
thoughts
quick
suddens
flap raises
rolled
blinding
tensions held
released near
the
front window
that
knows
what
shows and
what
doesn’t
when
the music
gives
in
EJR
©
Oh mister, this is sizzling.
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