MEDITATION

The only drawback
in this life
is that
it gets in the way
of living.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2017

MEDITATIONS

In the sometime
sentient evening,
tentacles weave
themselves from urns;
while Trane blows
a Latin Mass
through golden horns,
and my love
of gods
is second
to the blue smoke
trailing
from his horn.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2015