lyric: i am looking at music
by Pinkie Gordon Lane
It is the color of light,
The shape of sound high in the evergreens
It lies suspended in hills,
A blue line in a red sky.
I am looking at sound.
I am hearing the brightness
Of high bluffs and almond trees
I am tasting the wilderness
of lakes, rivers, and streams
Caught in an angle of song.
I am remembering water
That glows in the dawn
The motion tumbled in earth
Life hidden in mounds.
I am dancing a bright beam of light
I am remembering love.
(Ajana and I watched Love Jones again tonight, which I admit has slowly made its way into my top ten romance movies. I’ve always been curious about who wrote the final poem that Nia Long reads at the end of the movie, I’d read somewhere that it was Sonia Sanchez, but it was this woman whose poetry I think I quite enjoy)
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