Coltrane

In response to Gary Barwin's "On Listening to Coleman Hawkins," I offer the less elegant offering below:


A Love Supreme

To describe Coltrane's reed squall
we refer to animals in nature
as depicted in storybook recordings:
elephant, walrus, a lion under fire.

We look to the machine world:
to trains, factories, to scrap yards.

And in locked-up places,
the determined hinge tearing --

but find only
more Coltrane.

from Ghost Music (BuschekBooks, 2010), coming soon