outlaw poetry and free jazz network

THE HURT SONG

The roots of the hurt song
snares the ankles of me, trapping me
in a tangle; the twisting binds me
tighter as the visions speak.

The arrows of my jazz strikes from
hotel room shadows; strange faces
angrily cross over me.
Towns fail to call me home.
My hands are suitcases, reaching to go.

My foot slaps to the beat of release,
like a window of escape or a road
leading away.

Behind my face the music builds,
filling the back parts of me,
releasing on the stairs of my steps
where I see it all.

LOOKING DOWN

Without the singing,
the song is a child without a voice.

Like an easterly sun,
she lifts healing with her words.

The salt of flavor runs with overflow,
rising in a drowning of jazz and her.

Altars of eyes kneel worshiping
with understanding, owning the pain she feels.

Tree tops wave to passing clouds;
she sees the land from there,
weeping for faces left behind.

ONLY THE NOTES

Purposed with feeling
and perfect timing,
his fingers crawl
on the guitar
like a river
commanding space
between valleys

Years of sound
wash from him
like a fever
sending deep chills
on the crowd
like a hammer
settling fast.

The music mixes
jazz and life,
collecting thick
on listeners
as they applaud,
but he hears
only the notes.

some related articles are listed below:

1. roger singer | 3 (more) jazz poems
2. roger singer | sorrow song & delta jazz & from her
3. roger singer | 3 [jazz] poems
4. roger singer | a line of strings & other poems
5. roger singer | more (jazz) poems
6. roger singer | soaked on jazz | solid wind | with night
7. roger singer | fear of loss & inside the horn & teach me the jazz
8. roger singer | 3 poems
9. roger singer | a storm of force & we sing & slide and slap
10. roger singer | pulling at me | brass bound | his jazz
11. roger singer | walking the dirt | unwrapped | that brassy thing
12. roger singer | walls bow
13. roger singer | the bank of blues and other poems
14. roger singer | round and round
15. roger singer | separate colors
16. roger singer | listening to angels
17. roger singer | her gift of words
18. mark weber | four poems from new york city
19. roger singer | she cries of voice
20. dorothea grossman | four poems
21. mark weber | poetry band | zerx 068
22. mark weber | did you get locked out?
23. mark weber | move to the groove
24. todd moore | play it & judy christopher
25. mark weber | on richard tabnik
26. poetry & jazz | the south pasadena music conservatory
27. todd moore | the perfect
28. mark weber | south for the winter
29. mark weber | movement is the key to everything
30. mark weber | tomorrow might be the day we get away from all that | ronald baatz | say a prayer for my dog
31. attila jozsef | the song of a grieving hungarian
32. mark weber | world war two
33. john yamrus | mackley leans over & we were at…
34. mark weber | yoga + painting + jazz + traveling by air
35. mark weber | happy birthday for connie crothers
36. mark weber | bip bop de biddly bip de bip de bippitty boo
37. mark weber | hal mckusick and the finger snap of modernism
38. albert huffstickler | love song
39. mark weber | chased out
40. mark weber | keeping warm but staying cool
41. mark weber | weet anorso
42. mark a. murphy | eternity’s flow & other poems
43. mark weber | poems and doodles
44. dave church | drunk radio poems
45. norbert blei | notes from the underground
46. iniquity press | big hammer no. 13
47. todd moore | the volcanic death song of baby face nelson
48. albert huffstickler | two poems for thanksgiving
49. todd moore | the central avenue rundown jazz radio show
50. dante ocariz | 3 (more) poems
51. dante ocariz | four poems
52. harry rasky | the song of leonard cohen
53. mark weber & gerald locklin | zerx chapbook No. 63
54. mark weber | Em6
55. casey quinn | greatness is a smoke alarm…and 2 other poems
56. mark weber | march 17, 2010 | 4:30pm Albuquerque New Mexico
57. gary brower | chet
58. don winter | 3 new poems
59. doug draime | five poems
60. tony moffeit | the outlaw revolution
61. fred voss | goodstone