In the midst of learning to walk,
I have stumbled across your message of flight.
Your lesson in soul on the Isle of Wight.
The poet has agreed to submit for the record,
A vision of technique inspired.
Dreams can be learned but the essence is wired.
Under prismatic hues and billows of smoke,
I've inhaled and exhaled listening close through the night:
A fish-eyed lens lying prone in delight.
May I sit at your table tonight?
In the mist of a suburban fog,
I have stumbled across a pawn-shop guitar.
My family and friends want a larger car.
The poet has agreed to slow it, know it,
Speed it up, slow it down, get it right.
A softly spoken stick o dynamite.
Underwater sunlight and music concrete,
Signs and saws and pulses arranged,
The master tricks himself into feeling deranged.
May I sit at your round table?
We sit around the table.
In the mess of a sunken, sullen, smoky downtown room...