an improvised groove gumbo just the way romare would like it
or
for romare, the real inventor of the collage poem
or
when symmetry is the mistake
and
a poem after a jazz-filled bearden-themed documentary

haze vague clarity pastoral pastures
sleepy necks tiger tooth eye teething youngster

mystery bread scarfed braid flinching cheek
grapevine skin broom feet mossy elbows elbow dream

tambourine man banjo men joe-joe’s loose dog
burdock root boyish wart clay pond dives ironing finger

spittoon wind-swept porch ankle speak drowned ear
pictorial memory rip-snag “crisis” image

“ailey’s ancestral voices”
periodical alchemist bucolic brew

down right countrified stew corporeal art
cacophonous riffs lightening blade jazz juxtaposition

“wet on wet” bayou aesthetic

prose in woman form
spastic