This is the best poem I have ever written to date.
sing in me
electric voice
grand note on the piano
pedal depth baritone
effervescence aside
flow the jazz song to the acetate
from the saxophone
in an unbroken river
of languid penetration
by sound
sing in me
electric voice
record of time and youth
wine to grapevine
rising on rooftops
antennaelike
channel the greats
voice flattened to airwaves
singing american flesh
sing in me
electric voice
ground wire and ground zero
sing memories derelict
rising on the tops of toes
sing lovers' moans
tangled in the legs of beds
writing
writhing
on the edges of paper
on the wingtips of
first summer wind
and last memories
of autumn hot
and cold
sing in me
[Note: I have slightly edited the poem, so the sound recording does not exactly match the most recent text.]
Sorry to thread (poem?) jack, but I saw your mom on Granville street yesterday driving towards downtown! Man what a coincidence. I didn't say hi though because I was driving and she wouldn't have known who I was...:-)