Dancing in a Haitian Bar

10-9-04

Confidently owning each borrowed tree

taken by this culture’s arms in

between

backward innovations

forward to history’s worst nightmare: 

Forgetfulness

he hears not echoes, but heartbeats

shaking outside a raw determination

He’s all of our insecurities,

washed away

by a god much larger

than can fill a small, steepled

room full of fear

Music

            Lives

                        Inside all of us.

But it is home inside of him.