Randy Weston’s African Rhythms, the Day After
- Randy Weston’s African Rhythms, the Day After
as if, the wall behind was not a wallharper pretended
jazz standard the sign did not exist, as ifmiles said play what
you don’t know, on key weston respondednot with breath
but breath’s imagination— in the train car sally-anndaydreams last night,
this paradox, we live in structures. she believessomebody forget to tell
blake don’t go; yet, he did on upright bass, lefther an aesthetic mess
this morning on the #1— [End Page 695]
Randall Horton
randall horton is the author of three collections of poetry, and most recently Hook: A Memoir. He is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders, and associate professor of English at the University of New Haven.
