Head in the clouds he'd have said of himself, she'd have said elsewhere, his to be above and below, not know or say, hers to be alibi, elegy otherwise

Song of the Andoumboulou: 50

by Nathaniel Mackey

-ring of the well- Fray was the name where we came to next. Might've been a place, might not've been a place but we were there, came to it sooner than we could se... Come to so soon, it was a name we stuck pins in hoping we'd stay. Stray was all we ended up with. Spar was another name we heard it went by... Rasp we also heard it was called... Came to it sooner than we could see but soon enough saw we were there. Some who'd come before us called it Bray... Sound's own principality it was, a pocket of air flexed mouthlike, meaning's mime and regret, a squib of something said, so intent it seemed. At our backs a blown conch, bamboo flute, trapic remnant, Lone Coast reconnoiter come up empty but for that, a first, forgotten warble trafficked in again even so, the mango seed's reminder sent to what end we'd eventually see... We had Come thru there before we were told. Others claiming to be us had come thru... The ubiquitous two lay bound in cloth come down from on high, hoping it so, twist of their raiment steep integument, emollient feel for what might not have been there. Head in the clouds he'd have said of himself, she'd have said elsewhere, his to be above and below, not know or say, hers to be alibi, elegy otherwise known... have said elsernrheren Above and below, limbo what fabric intervened. Limbo the bending they moved in between. Limbo the book of the bent knee... Antiphonal thread attended by thread. Keening string by thrum, inwardness, netherness... Violin strings tied their hair high, limbo the headrags they wore... The admission of cloth that it was cover, what was imminent out of reach, given what went for real, unreal, split, silhouetted redress

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	Earl Hines	Piano Man	Earl Hines & His Grand Terrace Orchestra	RCA
	Maynard Ferguson	That Jones Boy	Birdland Dream Band	Fresh Sounds
	George Russell	All About Rosie	The Birth of the Third Stream	Columbia
	Shorty Rogers	Diablo's Dance	Shorty Rogers & His Giants	RCA
	Charles Mingus	Gunslinging Bird	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
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	Duke Ellington	Primpin' for the Prom	Primpin' for the Prom	RCA - France
	Sarah Vaughn & Billy Eckstine	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm	The Irving Berlin Song Book	Mercury
	Sarah Vaughn	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	Sings Gershwin	Mercury
	Langston Hughes	Horn of Plenty	Black America Vol. 5 / The Black Verse	Buddha Records Sunday Series
	Miles Davis	Blue X-Mas (To Whom it May Concern)	Jingle Bell Jazz	Columbia
	Carolina Shout	James P. Johnson	James P. Johnson	Columbia
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	Gigi Gryce featuring Clifford Brown	Deltitnu	Gigi Gryce Orchestra	Vogue
	Zoot Sims	Slingin' Hasch	Zoot Sims Quartet	Vogue
	Woody Herman	Four Brothers	Woody Herman Orchestra	Columbia
	Claude Thornhill	Yardbird Suite	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Fresh Sounds
	Langton Hughes	Bird in Orbit	Black America Vol. 5 / The Black Verse	Buddha Records Sunday Series
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	Modern Jazz Quartet	The Jasmine Tree	Under the Jasmine Tree	Apple
	Bob Brookmeyer	Jive Hoot	Bob Brookmeyer & Friends	Columbia
	Michel Legrand	Jitterbug Waltz	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Mary Lou Williams	Perdido	In London	Vogue
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	Joseph Jarman	Ginger Song	Black Paladins	Black Saint

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion

Show description for Sunday 7/17/2011 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

All those ships that never sailed
The ones with their seacocks open
That were scuttled in their stalls...
Today I bring them back
Huge and transitory
And let them sail
Forever.

All those flowers that you never grew-
that you wanted to grow
The ones that were plowed under
ground in the mud-
Today I bring them back
And let you grow them
Forever.

All those wars and truces
Dancing down these years-
All in three flag swept days
Rejected meaning of God-

My body once covered with beauty
Is now a museum of betrayal.
This part remembered because of that one's touch
This part remembered for that one's kiss-
Today I bring it back
And let you live forever.

I breath a breathless I love you
And move you
Forever.

Remove the snake from Moses' arm...
And someday the Jewish queen will dance
Down the street with the dogs
And make every Jew
Her lover.


Bob Kaufman, poet. (from, The Ancient Rain)




Betye Saar, Ragtime, 2005, mixed media box assemblage, 19" x 20" x 2" Pictured above

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