Still on our theme of dissing Wally S. (Man Carrying Thing), or if one prefers "engaging the validity of his ideas" I like this piece, it started out as one of those 'let's just mess around and see what happens' type things and then boom, it kind of came together. I got really, really lucky with this piece. It's the type of poem where you don't know quite what it means, but you know exactly what it means.
Man Carrying Horn
A poem must entice
the sense almost mysteriously.
Illustration:
A noir figure front stage
Entices the open eye.
The muted horn he plays
can entice the most dumb ear.
Sense them then, as key
(notes almost perceived
as known melodies,
uncertain notation
of certain chords,
the roots full of doubt,
notes floating like the last of Autumn Leaves
on a soft breeze that could last all night,
on a key breeze of cobalt notes),
A seduction of sensation
now deeply perceived.
We will bathe
In this seduction all night,
while the dark mystery
stands back-turned on stage.
(For Miles Dewey Davis
after Wallace Stevens)
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