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A Pillow Book for Jazz 

 

 

The way jazz seems to talk

to you

 

the way people seem to nod

all around

while jazz is talking to you

 

considering how absurd it is

to try to fill the silence

 

the way a nod finds

the silence

 

the way that silence fills

the silence of a crowd

all nodding around you

 

when one nod catches

uncanny

 

spilling out the contents from all

packages

unwrapped within you

 

before finding

yet another peeking from the floor

of wrappings

 

Ready for opening.

 

 

                                                   --- Chris Custer