Ignition Poem by Hank Lazer

- for Charles Lloyd


ignition liftoff clarifying
spring morning sunlight

freshly roasted beans


& payday imminent
this earthturn you

will see what


twenty or twenty-five
more times as

branch artery blood


breath vision instant
specific earthturn call

to hear finite


times delight a
music soul attuned

bass sax piano


drums the water
is wide why

not walk across