WELP

 

This poem ties most of the ideas in my book together and will hopefully be in a 2nd edition.

AN IDEA OF IMPROVISATION AT KEY WEST

I’ve heard she sang beyond the genius 

of the sea and was maker of a song, 

but have I also failed to deal with why

Apophenia’s constant cry of nothing 

less than the tonic of being colored 

by coral at twilight or of bathing while

waiting for a moon to cross the Jordan

as Seminole sounds now found in lyrics 

of Ida Goodson tunes could form to some

a mere random timbre rising in swells 

between the endless blues of sea and sky

most acute in shadows of dunes or shells 

as if the neon i of enlighten  

was the bluest eye of someone else?

1 eku di sinu na aguas di mar ondulason da lua

2 day moon the curve of her cowrie shell tattoo

3 conch to ear even at the sea longing for the sea