169: Somewhere in the world/there is a saxophone playing...

Somewhere in the world

there is a saxophone playing

          John Coltrane

or

          Coleman Hawkins

or

          Bird

or

          Ornette Coleman

issuing plastic yawlps

daring you to hear the beauty

daring you to find the beauty in

his dissonant screams

screams like dying sunflowers

beauty in living

           (but not living)

beauty in dying

           (but not dead)

notes like

           sunflowers standing

           as they are dried by the sun

           spared by the wind

a final note like

           their faded ecstatic yellow

           still vibrant

           still alive, but its intensity soft

the final note

not as high or hard to play

as the peaks

but impressive

because of its lasting beauty

here at the end

lasting,

            lasting,

                       last

last note

                       ready?

somewhere in the world

there is a saxophone playing

           (here it comes)

Coltrane.



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