in the pitch of citrus, part 4

A new kind of liturgical jazz                       metallic
not New Orleans style                               resonance
but Ground Zero style

She becomes a woman of the dunes
a lover who will never relent

can never relent

for she is like the sand
radioactive dust
and that is relentless

containing half lives
of a million years

in this new age
of unreason
dreaming is
the final curse

an inverted
hourglass

broken chips
of glass
fall through

broken particles                                     vuota
sifted clean                                       in orange
                                                  and yellow
blood stains mostly
removed

new scenes from a marriage

Listen:

in the darkness
beyond the room

Time steps

Remember A Clockwork Orange?

Love made in
surrealistic pillow
dreams of a not too
distant tomorrow

Love made
in ways
that always                                       chorus
                                               in red-violet
drew blood

the ultimate dominance
of form over content

a ravaging
of the innocent

Remember the slaves?

the women in back seats
“their legs like twin searchlights”
          ?

This is tomorrow
enacted today

New Music:
A Threnody for the Victims
of Hiroshima

a siren song

a warning
that always comes
too late

that does no good

the victims have already
been reduced




                           Coda

An acid wash
clears the
windows

of color

The man
watching

has no face
no heart
no voice

& somewhere
offstage an
organ is playing

the solo part
for something
meant for funerals

&
a disembodied

solo female
voice

Cheryl Dodds - Eye Music

I - Persephone in the Field
II - Derbris of Dreams
III - Are You Listening?
IV - Monologues for an Apocalypse

Ace Boggess - Abuse Cycle
Marty McConnell - girl on the tracks
Julie Bonaduce - The Company Of
Gary Whitehead - Tableaux

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