Let me sense the chaos
I will respond
with a song
why else
was I
born
says Jimi of the purple haze
through Kalamu ya Salaam
Now look, at those eyes
look at her arms
follow her little finger
I wonder what
Jean Toomer who could see
the Georgia Pike growing
out of a goat path
in Africa
would say about
Cassandra Wilson tonight
Perhaps Cassandra
does not even sing.
Here of course a voice there is
possessed by music like the rest of her
her whole body is song
her whole body has sensed the chaos
I say look at those eyes
look at her arms
follow her little finger
and understand perhaps why
you were born with ears
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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