Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Lust shifts

Odilia Rivera Santos

we played music first thing  in the morning

                                       cleaning 
          to 

   a 
          beat 

was the norm

                                         i sang torch songs 

when i was eight 



with broom in hand

i sing because it makes me happy, tickles my mind and soul no end to be able to flow with notes 

- discordant ones and the ones that line up like soldiers.

it needn't be thought of as performance 

if i sing as i work 

or as i shower 

or as you speak about your day

when a song enters my mind, it is a phenomenal dance partner 

swaying in front of me

there is nothing to be done 
because 
there 
is 
no 
greater 
desire 
than 
to join in and cherish pure joy as it makes itself available 
to me 



in that moment



and then we break apart 
without exchanging phone numbers



we part and return to normal life

BUT, my normal life is infused with music
and there is light


                                              light
that 
                                     floods rooms thought vacant and abandoned

until there can be no darkness

rhythms 


straight


                                                                          crooked
old
liltin' and tiltin'

i bring you in

                                                                you 
can hear

you
                                              can see

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