Blue Yusef blows reeds
signifying grace and uplift
pharonic blues
to rock the river Nile
make a woman smile
slow drag smoky room
an astral-terrestial flag
hum a gospel tune
slow tambourine jangle
helps untangle the times
we've been undermined
strings sing of fields
Delta and Elysian
felt in Euphratean hearts
leaping like Lateef
under the moonlight
blue with the tattoo
of so much longing
true to the belief
in the splendor of coral reefs
and recumbent seas that speak
in sparkling dawn
colorful blinks of light
Yusef Lateef
the rebel who revels
revealed
peels back centuries
of decrepit thuggery
unseals the dignity
and scenery of unheard music
green area of a higher plane
caught a slow train
like Coltrane
fans the flames of the furnace
of higher mind or cools down
the eternal sine and co-sine
for minds to unwind
insisting on fat riffs
drum beats like shape shifts
through estuaries of song
drift fragments of ghost ships
transformed into haiku bliss
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