Jazz Poems

From WRITTEN TO MUSIC EIGHT FOR ORNETTE’S MUSIC If the pain is greater than the difference as the bird in the night or the perfumes in the moon oh witch of question oh lips of submission in the flesh of summer the silver slipper in the sleeping forest if hope surpasses the question by the mossy spring in the noon of harvest between the pillars of silk in the luminous difference oh tongue of music oh teacher of splendor if the meat of the heart if the fluid of the wing as love if birth or trust as love as love time turns the tables the indifferent and blissful Spring saves all souls and seeds and slaves asleep dark Spring in the dark whispering human will words spoken by two kissing tongues hissing union Eve’s snake stars come on two naked bodies tumble through bodiless Christmas trees blazing like bees and rosebuds fire turns to falling powder lips relax and smile and sleep fire sweeps the hearth of the blood on far off red double stars they probate their own tied wills KENNETH REXROTH

from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young

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