The Blues Are All The Same  
      
        for Jackson C. Frank  
       
      It seems almost too far fetched really, 
        too difficult to believe. 
        This unassuming moon shining like a copper plate. 
        These milkcrate blues. 
        This soft trellis of sound 
        wobbling through the wind 
        as if pouring out from the window 
        of some lonely house on the hill. 
        How beautiful it is, 
        the ghost of your voice, 
        haunting this empty valley.  |