80


For Kenny Wheeler's 80th Birthday


horn notes  pegged
 to long  hewn
  stems fleck  silent   air
   smooth spathed  metal
     teasel chords  unstring
         a knotless townscape
           bracteal &  improvised
           flush long  melodic  flurries
        taken up  &   snagged
     until they  snap
   colour-coded veins
  implant slack  &   rootless
 polished blow-balls
in the  blustered   sky





Varzi         January 2010