Wider

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.