Arts for the 21st Century

Backyard Bird Watching with Augustus Pablo

Yesterday he saw a
Hummingbird sitting in air
Sipping from its ixora sunshine slush
of sweetness –

Listening to “East of the River Nile”
Augustus harmonica bathed in
Rock stone sun light on the CD cover

These visions of “jah light” on his headphones
Tune his eyes and ears to
Wind of Augustus transposed on red oriole’s wings
Against willow tree

Where he imagines a poem set to
the “nature dub”
and transcribes its lines
to sail this bass odyssey home