minor chords
key of Q

screaming violet

iNdigo…

who was never one to suffer
the indignation

of a Question that
lingered
like
rain in a puddle.

Q
like a key to
a world in side

of the rarely
spoken

laughter of a relative
sixth

V
violent shades
of indigo

whispered like a
siren waiting dockside

for the sailors from
the sixth fleet.

the allurement of
love in the guise of
desire

vermillion cool
v bop – voutee mo’

Bach in a fugue
falling to a simple
gracious

f minor.

curious to wind up
in the room where
the F minor was
lounging in a peignoir

a slatternly
amorous amalgam

of Blues basted with
be bop thrilling
arpeggios and slow
roasted in the savory
stew of an unresolved

32 bar blues… E7
to A then a minor B
in the transcendent key

of desire.

When the Bird and I would
jam, him rifting in the seductive
shadows of heroin,
and I in the garden tending
lilacs and poppies, hearing rooms
imagined with the sweet ascension.

Was he talking to god?
Did he imagine god as a lover,
seen, but never held.

Peonies purple, lilac,
luscious
plump

a juicy ripe C brimming
delightful with the
possibility of redemption.

Cheery, bright without
any of the existential
angst of minor chords - -

fragmented shards of
atonal rifts…
Coltrane make rapturous
l
o
v
e
with the goddess of memory.

Memory

god and the divine

we draw sustenance
from.

Not poppies nor Lethe,
we are not absolved
by bathing in Styxs

memory
desire
love

a blues in
one
four
five

flat the seventh
and open the
soul to the
seventh house

love is the
transcendent
note

alpha
omega

and

key of Q

querulous
little bugger.

to give
to love
to surrender.

Quom.
Q
Kwa

Notes in
the key of Q.