Starmaker

Starmaker

(to Roy Hargrove)

No idea who you were

But I knew your music

And the tune I checked in to regularly

For help and guidance

To understand the confusion

Of marking my line in the sand,

Only to have it washed away by the tide

Every moon cycle

To process the jumbled energy

That threw off electrons

At an alarming rate

Causing concern among physicists

To jet me off to that night city

Where I could smile and

Be with her alone in a crowd.

She’d stare back at me and ask “What?”

And I wouldn’t need to say a thing.

- December 2018