a love supreme (thanks to Coltrane)

1/        

it's

that weird off-beat again.
catching me

  just

     as i

       sink

         into

              a
              nice,
              steady,
              4/4.            

or...


the slow, foxy grumble
easing out past    the piano

to tweak

my
   unsuspecting ear.


2/

it is whispered (not sung) that

the logic of a
dull man's dance

is born of his decision to dance


   that

        he

     who

       has not felt

                 the dizzy whirl

              of


                                          release

  has not

              been

      whirled.      


3/   

but ooooooooo the

       sudden
    
    turns 

  of 

that love supreme
 

shuck off
the tippity-tap
the bing-bang-boom
the hand hand fingersthumb


somehow, both gone and returned