10 haiku (for Max Roach) 1. Nothing ends every blade of grass remembering your sound
6. feet tapping singing, impeach our blood
2. your sounds exploding in the universe return to earth in prayer
7. you came drumming sweet life on sails of flesh
3. as you drummed your hands kept reaching for God
8. your fast beat riding the air settles in our bones
4. the morning sky so lovely imitates your laughter
9. your drums soloing our breaths into the beat…unbeat
5. you came warrior clear your music kissing our spines
10. your hands shimmering on the legs of rain.
SONIA SANCHEZ from “Morning Haiku” by Sonia Sanchez. Copyright © 2009 Sonia Sanchez. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
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