Norman Weinstein’s Homage to Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor: Completion Then Scherzo in Mind (1928-2018)
: keyboard, acquire roiling equipoise. Who
once sent your keys catapulting into free
space breathes somewhere
his vapor trail here
after remains in
visible, his touch whole
tone
holy sprit tongues
vibrate as waves shimmer
radiant radiant off a Telsa
coil.
This meteor
shower dis
ceased
clears a night sky
for constellations
which swell at speed
keyboard you can’t respond to
as tonic
notes worth
deaths for
resonance
goes on after lid
shuts