Blind Bird Looking For A Home
and strong wide open sky roofs of Buffalo
atop of this State New York,
the immense swell of this land
of eagles swooping,
merrily lost inside nesting rivers and mountains
and as the breath of this country changes,
Great Lakes blast on,
sail on by through well-below zero declarations,
below further falling trails of this Eastland
and as days replace each other
hours loose their implicit meaning,
giving way to folk natural progressions
beside antique ice saxophones
blowing wide open elephant honk riffs,
reminding these staid solemn mountains they’ve been exactly right all along,
and being frozen keeps you together long enough
for those songs you think about to go and again get thought up,
but this time in a blues minor key
and here the invisible sky below
seeks out paths,
flowing along forward signifying trails
where smoke memories
may rest to condense
and perhaps all or maybe most design is found or manifested from what lies still and cold underneath,
and what can only remain are sunshine and destituteness
taking their turns
becoming reality
and out there somewhere
let me jump far into what today can bring-
it is that sort of constant dilemma of needing to go further,
to continue stepping and dodging
the bullets of present now,
though knowing they may be concealed
still like all rumors
explode any second into
some cold mornings breakfast revelation
(i understand
always ready to go,
on)
and so that is why i come home Paterson
when i know it shouldn’t make any difference where youre born,
but still these clouds drift right past themselves
and i know i must try distances too,
without any excuses,
amen,
Yes!
2/17/73
Buffalo NY