Sound makes the world our maws mutter, shudder & shout at. In the
rhetoric of Sanskrit a single inflection’s fall separates a saxophone from a sunset.
Why do we get stressed? Elocution admits our tongue tip to be Shiva lingam
strike-stroking yoni cave fissures where mouths of unborn life forms whisper
create me.

Birds? Yeah, birds wing by wildly. But in the incantation of Sanskrit
fields only open with the wail of a word or the wink of an I. If the veil of
Maya conceals our own divine nature, then the other is who we seek to discover,
enjoy, reveal & become.

Guttural-palatal-domal-dental-labial: the sutras of Sanskrit elucidate
the part mouth & tongue play in the art of love to be so exact---& so exactly
the whole of love---yearning to sing & get sung over & over again.

Rilke turned his lust to stone, stone to blood, blood to bone, bone to dust
to know our affliction’s fire, to pen the peep of wonder at death’s flowering
grin: Rose, o pure contradiction, desire/To be no one’s sleep under so many /Lids.

When Kerouac scat in prose what Rilke wrote his epitaph toward, he saw sacred
slits slide open & birth mark the bloody cost, why heart & hymen get broken:
to elevate love above all other instruction for tender’s the wound insisting
us human & the salve that heals is in the touch of lips & feel of fingertips.
We’ve seen the shapes rage takes against the flicker of the flame: bombs drop,
blood flows, bones break. Calm seas reflect what every face already knows:
lines drawn won’t erase.

To move, any blues song will tell ya, you got to move, mother. To where’s
what all the trouble’s about, invading or avoiding another. Accept loss forever
Kerouac riffed, remained open & not blew it, Hamiet, ripping out habit to
tear free the callous that keeps our corazon contorted for we’re adrift within
preparations we can never fully intuit. If bereft that lust is life & desire
direction, then remember roadmarks are only all we’ve left.

To slide from loss to lost, let’s swim the ocean we’re in with a stroke that
mustn’t end or we won’t get nowhere enough to find the rose whose folds
Rilke hid our real identity in---brains: stem-seeds wrapped in idiosyncrasies of
veins the way a heart’s the sum of knot & bloom; the petalled room we enter
unfolds like the wings of desire---nothing but the shape we might be born from.

Growing up against nutty Neptune’s reign, the runt covered not the waterfront but nightclubs it spewed up & maintained. While women worked that walk, he saw why rivers save their sediment for the sea, the wail on that trail, a beach full of blues in perpetuity: to slay with a song of long notes, less a killer of ladies, more a phraser of praises! Rung lyric strung, embouchure so strong, his name became Orpheus.

Growing up amidst rugged mugs motley mean, he minded not the underground scene for relief came in grinning facts, that no matter how far into earth he dug, he came up with metal to melt down & play: a silver flute, a Harmon mute, Adolph Sax’s gold suit shining. When storm shouts broke with morning, floodgates opened & whatever was buried six feet under found its way to what was called the Long Island Sound.

On the third day, according to the G-men, Orpheus ascended & joyous noise arose on a bridge in Brooklyn, sky so warm round in rain, only a hint winter had ever been. The sun shone bright diagonals across oily avenues, Sonny, & spring rolled in, the here-we-go-again that looms blossoms from scrap heap & peat moss bottoms, shaped him a felon in his own unknown skin, seeking his Eurydice.

Growing up at his arrest for no address & alleged lunar howling his horn runneth over like a soul in lungful wonder. He stood alone in a twilit zone playin’ a gut-bucket vamp that had the courtroom comin’ undone in fits what got him a witness, notes so low-down & mean women tore out their hair & screamed. A mob of maenads lunged toward him & he knew for certain, as only a drowning men could see him, that his is the ocean, songs but bits of he the key of sea shall free. He eyed in the gallery his Eurydice & the spinning of big wheels in the town of Ezekiel proved to be nothing next to her beauty