Daily Archives: February 26, 2011

Gravedancers’ Ball

whose graves we choose
to fantasize
the tarantelle upon

is less relevant
than knowing we all
have the deep longing
to dance there

polarity’s
the public target
of disgust
but honestly?
we all love to sin
that light fantastic
we can’t seem to sit still
red, blue
left, right

love that happy dance

how soft the ground
and yielding
how haughty our heels

how good it feels
to be swinging
above them
and they can’t do a thing
about it

the beautiful American word
revenge
is a toe dance of righteousness

everyone’s tapping
some on top
some waiting their turn

but every bastard one of us
wants to dance that dance

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By Tony Brown

Most experiences make you deeper. This one makes you wider. — from the original liner notes of “Are You Experienced?”

The world was breaking.
This was
the music of pieces.

When it played
we believed in fragmentation
and eventual reassembly.

“This one makes
you wider,”
said the liner notes.

There still hasn’t been
enough Hendrix in the air
for us.

We still
lie on our floors,
listening,

certain the next time “Third Stone From The Sun”
plays it’ll happen.
This isn’t nostalgia,

we swear. It’s re-creation.
A second chance at getting it right
the first time.

Maybe it was only his world
that expanded? We’re going to have
to listen again

to the sound of boundaries
and memories. Maybe
that’s our new world, rising over there.

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