Charles Mingus
by 
James Graham
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Posted: 08 December 2014 Word Count: 83 Summary: For this week's challenge. Mingus was a jazz bass-player. The last three lines are adapted from Alice Walker, so not original. |
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Charles Mingus
His music is bass purple.
When the daisy-white piano and scarlet king trumpet
have had their say
a four-beat silence
then a single thrum
a deep soft boom
a star of clematis in a shadowy corner
another, and another
each note a purple spark
Now the solo break
a drift of crocuses in sun
a drift of meteorites by night
purple fires in the upper air.
He must have walked
by the colour purple in a field somewhere
and noticed it.
His music is bass purple.
When the daisy-white piano and scarlet king trumpet
have had their say
a four-beat silence
then a single thrum
a deep soft boom
a star of clematis in a shadowy corner
another, and another
each note a purple spark
Now the solo break
a drift of crocuses in sun
a drift of meteorites by night
purple fires in the upper air.
He must have walked
by the colour purple in a field somewhere
and noticed it.
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