Thank you Editor Lanning Russell of Event Horizon for publishing this poem.


Creating "Desert Song"

It was rumored that guitarist Jimmy Page would be playing at the Desert Trop Mega-Concert (2017)

Desert Song
The last true Viking charges onto the stage 
bearing his axe overhead 
in defiance of those who call him a shadow.

Like poets pluck words from the ether,
so does he pull down the elemen- tals
and weaves them among the strings
with seraphic fingers,
his alchemical magick amalgamating sounds.

Easy-
For he has long known the secret of the lost chord.
He strikes it now
to shatter the rumble of the crowd.

Cool-
He makes himself visible on stage and beats the Devil’s heat.