Past a Blue Note, Inside

down below,

midnight blue feelings spill across

skyless afternoons of lifetimes

inside hearts,

window buds begin to begin,

further symphonies of tuning instruments,

players settling in for the spectacle

and deeper, mirror-doors lead to chance encounters,

unexplored uncompromised discoveries,

progressions of possibilities

as paths cross

moments when eyes blink into each other,

birthing songs born of different times

a dive off life's rock

takes the song deeper into the water of possibilities,

headlong into more streams of evolving parts,

past uncertain poignant notes,

becoming soft-winged birds flyin amidst

the tragic humble traces of Lady Day

Out West

1/20/73