An old poetic effort.... Probably circa 1995 or 96.

Sheet Music

Last night we made rock 'n' roll
with the art of jazz musicians
an impassioned interplay
of instruments
reaching out
and reaching in
an undulating quest
to unfold the robes
of harmony and melody
the dressing-down
and dressing-up
of sound and rhythm
for a symphony
of the ecstatic
and the primal
each quiver a triumph
for an unseen maestro
keeping us in time
keeping us in rhyme
a fluid conversation
of hushed moans
and swallowed sighs
the breath tracks
for enfolding flesh
nearer than the sea
ebbing and rising
melting and melding
in a secret smouldering dance
of bodies wrest in motion
of bodies wrestling emotion
for some sweet transfiguration
of soul and cadence
crescendent from their essence
into the unbound screams
of two sweat-drenched singers
with a single

perfect

voice