Early Morning Beauty Blues

early morning beauty blues
as bird flies sugar-free to full light
streams with windows of istanbul
and the bass simple rings ears
to happiness and nether quiet

early morning blues
makes dance moves fast like the blue plunge
to deep waters 
and the expanse of temperature

notes from the master playing standing bass
friend beyond negotiation
worker of the instrument
receiver of the gifts
maker of the evidence
through and further than  the sparrows scratch
and refined like gravel from the mountains

early morning beauty blues
marble and peace
wood and skin touched
like a light sleep with the eyes half shut
half open
half shut half open

out of the window
over the house tops
city of converging rivers
seas to immense oceans us

from some tiny me soul
with the lips hung ready to whistle or sing
these early burning beautiful morning beauty blues.

istanbul july 2008