Midnight Skylark
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11/19/2006 4:19:07 PM
Dark Magus Miles Ahead Number 7
“Dark Magus Miles Ahead No. 7” is more a meditation on the quality of musical genius that empowered the life of jazz legend Miles Davis than it is a meditation on the man himself. Nevertheless, his eyes seemed often to look deep into my own as I wrote this piece. The title was borrowed from a painting by Roy LaGrone. For all that the piece itself says about the creative intellect, and for the way Rahkyt’s masterful production magnifies that insight, I’m glad it was included on our CD, “The Goddess and The Skylark, Dancing Through the Word Labyrinth.”
“DarkMagusMilesAhead #7”
Through the glowing-bronze reeds of Harlem midnight
and the plum-rose bloom of Spanish twilight
African-griot-magus waters the garden
of his neon spirals deep in the valley
of my jazz-consoled hunger and madness.
70 x 7,000 miles we travel the naked truth
of hidden beginnings and guessed-at endings,
African-griot-magus inhaling demons more easily
than I exhale peace of mind or clarity of soul.
African-griot-magus balancing divinity like tornadoes
humming on the tips of three angels’ tongues.
Lost inside my third mind I build a planet ruled by honeysuckle,
violets, and the shadows of voices bubbling soft joy.
With my seventh mind I hammer a chain of wonders
that hold African-griot-magus to all of his promises.
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
80 x 8,000 years we sing the naked story
of blue-boned Harlem midnight and plum-rose Spanish twilight.
African-griot-magus horn blowing waves of dotted light
that rise in the east and wander blind through the west.
African-griot-magus, face that is my face, unafraid of destruction,
wailing like Joshua illuminated pages for a new creation.
Aberjhani, The Midnight Skylark
(from The Goddess and The Skylark, Dancing Through the Word Labyrinth)
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