Coltrane reincarnate in sound chasses in surfer’s dreams <br />transfigures to an emperor butterfly leaving the body, <br />ancestral ebullient blood running, an afterward-ness sound <br />blowing through seashells lifts being onto wings that move <br />on the mood, on the hard blue rinks that gulf to make shores <br />play to pantomime the beach sands that roll the lonely hours <br />of the blues to the hard rock of the poor cafe <br />on the open oceans of waste, the heart springs electric vine, <br />gut, silk, pitch, soul, and spirit wine heavier sound mind and <br />the voice of the Hieroglyph, Ariel and Roman font, mores of <br />uncles and aunts pipe spirit terraced to sky horizons drifting <br />away into filthy carbon clouds of musical gray, spiritual grasp <br />disentangles on its own, prophecies wonder as in the sightings <br />yet unknown; <br />rhythms to mean the feel of need in the music sonar resound <br />the catch of seafood, rise above peer mix in the philters <br />into love and in the cheironomy1 led song in pharaoh style sung <br />bound for jubilees on the Nile plainsong of fun in the seasons <br />set out to contest in snow and hail to behold the bout <br />wages of trade love and change, apologies of lovers, the beer <br />of hosts; <br />the pub owner’s till; pocket change lint and key, rings left <br />with lenten on the casual bar quieting in me my fill of the <br />lover’s chasse in a surfer’s dream pirouettes at ease to bow <br />to neighbor’s veiled hidden faces spirits in unison swim <br />the sky seas riffing plain-jazz rhyme with the hook at the <br />bridge from the climb from the low land to the rise to the <br />shoulder from the shore of words lifting to the blues collectively.<br /><br />Lee B. Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/la-chasse-in-a-surfer-s-dream-improvisation-12-20-2004-11/
