Free Form Jazz of Spiritual Harlem

I can still hear the signal

clicking

in syncopation with the hum of the city

It's humidity like the breath of some jungle beast.

the stop light blinking, endlessly

The rows of buildings flash trees on their screens and some birds fat on the crumbs of men strut by.

I am here. In the alley.

The doorway creaks open and a girl is standing there. 

She gives me the tour.

I see gears turning.

 Dials moving. Dancing speckled sprockets riding up and down.

The levers. 

The pulleys wheeling this way and that.

Grooves meeting grooves!

It turning. 

In magic. 

In light. 

Crystalline chemical clocklike perfection.

Whirling and dazzling and sparkle 

of white light

 flashing silver and brass and gold

it rolling

and rollicking free

and fixed.

Its jubilation 

it's jeweled opulence shining bright white out

and casting deep black blanketing shadows far across the city's scape

and you hear her Hudson kiss the shoreline

as the moon peaks from behind the last few dots of tree left upon the scalp of American horizon.

The steel steer subway shining bright comes quietly screeching from out its blue tunnel.

The black coffee smell. The sweet rain smell. The cigarette smell. It all rising and riding in ribbons.

I see her smiling. Her grain waving in and out, quiet light of fresh sun shining.

Glistening pearls peer from the water.

The roses bend in.

And the pines weave out.

I can see the day coming home.

At last

we are  one.

In white whistling steam and new morning dew

singing and sewing silver golden notes that float down the endless river

 and fly with new blossoming birds on the endless breeze in harmony