to live
as calligraphy
pen tips
controlled
ink spillage
steady letter
stroke
every alpha
deliberate
character
produced
and walk
as paintbrush
canvas poised
back
straightened
easel on
down the road
mixed medium
metaphor
to speak a
chorally
worded
arrangement
none too
care
less
to act as
hard bop
ever the
innovative
individual
assertion
sounding off
upon others
in your
aural
hemisphere
to listen
as orchestral
conductor
or train
or coltrane
open your ears
to the violas
being played
notice how
strings differ
from winds
don’t
over work
percussion
perhaps
you might
even try
a triangle
sometimes
simple sounds
seize upon
something
profound
inside of us
even as subtle
as the song
in your name
sing it
now.