AJAR

AJAR

listening to progressive jazz (Ian Carr’s Nucleus
            with Chris Spedding
                                on guitar)

same time ploughing through Joyce’s Ulysses
say ploughing but sometimes
                                  one is surfing there
on a glorious wave, following the sweeping tide

nothing I can think of
could exceed this configuration
                                  in respect of
artistic complexity, cerebral
                                      integrity

unless
      twin philosophers of the body politic
were
    (becoming Maenad, going full Dionysian)
to pop in
      for a spot of ménage a trois

or
  no less exquisite
the
    jam session
    to end all jazz
                      jam sessions

in case
      they coming left the door ajar