Monday, January 8, 2018

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. 

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