Poem: The Quality Known As Immediacy

jazz is a private conversation made public,

a dirty word that rolls around so nicely in the mouth,

you taste jazz – and if you don’t you have never truly met music –

jazz is only off-putting if you won’t allow it, or rather – it’s

as off-putting as you allow it; with jazz in your life

you are actually living – those old, dead souls gave their all

so that you …