blackbird

“Into the light of a dark black night”Paul encourages her flight,with hope for chainless daysand change in chosen ways -to reach her brightest dawnto absolve her demons: gone —examining the exalted, the exiled,the ecstasy of life, the wonder of the wild ~embracing the cosmic coincidenceto experience her meaningful magnificence. You can find an animation of … Continue reading blackbird

Beverly

“Can you play some Jamaican music?”she asks — the sax mancatches her question.“Are they from America ora different island?”she asks — me.She hails from Jamaicaon the wings of our lord.55 this years this July.Memory like a trap.Moves like the breezeas the jazz mobStirs It Up.Her grandmother a princess,her father a diplomat,her love for them overflows … Continue reading Beverly

seams of seeming

A head and heart disconnected dismembers members ofseemingly distant worlds.Divided by streets or seas,houses or highways,parties or passions— separations of semblance maim with fear of loss. Semblance bears an underscore: for those divisions of secondhand seeming orpower-punctuated scheming ordeath-defined livingdare not dive belowtheir surfacebound reflections.Depth deliversdignity, rememberedand in recognition ofour connected consciousness.