Got Trenchtown Looped in my Head

Got Trenchtown Looped in my Head
1999

Where am I – where am I – sitting on soft wet rocks – feet sleeping under running stream – sun designing curving lines – blue white – ripples – dancing sun through bird chirps – I am happy

I am here – in a phone booth – romantic rain – droplets – painting glass portraits

Traffic lights

I am phoning say anything – “I gave her my heart she gave me a pen” – a knife – a brush

I am on this white field – this plane of dirt – my garden – of blossoming words – of color – of life – oh pain – oh strife – paint my blood my breath – my therapy

Where am I lost in phonics – notes of speech articulation

Where am I – yes in that trance – yes is that hush – a slave to the muse

Where am I – the veins of a maple leaf – in the roughness of bark – the softness of the path

Where am I – with my feet beating – the words of my thoughts

I am – in the red hue just before the blue of the night sky – connecting stars – drawing clouds

I am dust – scratching pictures on the black tv screen

I am happiness – laughter – and misery

I am in a silent way – monk’s dream with a jelly roll soul – these are just a few of my favorite things

I am