“Norman”
Particles dissected in a large-scale pictorial
we see auditory move ocularly
in a new contraption taser construct
you’re zapping my ears with wavering flecks.
A space – hmmm – for breathing, whistle-clapping and awaiting
saliva glanduating, mouth-to-mouthpiece – he’s licking
bamboo, a reed, in preparation
inside the realization, self-eulogizing
D’Angelo, the psalm is pre-mortem,
it’s the internal regime. A tumorous non-solution,
your defense triumphant. You initiate
collective celebratorial, big band, audience
in a pagan reincarnate rite.
What a glowing complementary McHenry, who wrote the plea
in a plaintive and serious tuning, what tone-play.
Tight-lipped and savage with closed-eyed faces, panting into brass,
horning, jutting, hips fingers knees toes.
All players enacting the fantasmagorial call and acceptance,
the waves fill the sound-room in the brain, bouncing off of mirrors
foundation-gnarling holes in jazz epoch.
