Wednesday, 26 November 2025

#2159 - first time


 

2159

6.330

27.xi.25

first time

poem on Jimi Hendrix’ birthday

 

heard spoke these words or others ever

saw through the tree to what was meant

 

the first time beat light to my wisp will

broke song out with touch of the keys

 

slept in a dumpster, leapt from the cliff

looked up from the biblical fall

 

corporeal as you imagine, brush of this that

told out these first few notes

 

first time with a thirst and toes to twinkle

being unbounded of other flesh

 

first noticing the creatures else

tricking out with trill of beak, eye along

 

I was up in the air, threw in the towel

inscribed a name on stone

 

the first time I wore off was when

who’ll tell?  my victory a laurel

 

and all the leaf spun round

heard Hendrix, heard Bach

 

took the day apart to tinker

the first time

 

no putting it back together ever

but wasn’t it wonder?

 

isn’t this world that way?









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