The Gift to Sing -by James Weldon Johnson
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,
And blackening clouds about me cling…
The God Abandons Antony -by C.P. Cavafy
At midnight, when suddenly you hear
an invisible procession going by…
Charlie Parker (1950) -by Campbell McGrath
Bird is building a metropolis with his horn.
Here are the gates of Babylon, the walls of Jericho cast down…
The Sound of the Sea -by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide…
A Silence -by Amy Clampitt
past parentage or gender
beyond sung vocables…
Ghazal -by Larry Levis
Does exile begin at birth? I lived beside a wide river
For so long I stopped hearing it…