pillars buried
in sand
colored ice
and wax sunrays
bleached blue by
the oncoming tide

ceremony stains on sunday's dress
spilled the girls from their secret sea
pressed tulips in april water breast
the daily deluge capsizing thee

shooting junk behind the admitting room
blood like a humid evicted cloud
the new girls moan, the red girls storm
their morning afters read aloud

to all the glass venom buildings
bearing witness
an elder *****
unknown
and
undone

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the white candle will
of your flickering skin
told in ages of
faultless flight
wades through
cirrus tendrils
on the last day of night

these long stemmed years
on the sleeves of palace black
serenade the undertow
on soprano lips
until God can feel the lack

mccoy tyner
played piano
in the john coltrane "classic"
quartet in the
1960s
he is still
alive
today

jimmy garrison
played
bass
in
the john coltrane
quartet
in
the
1960s