LIVE PERFORMANCES

…where giggling children win over jeering monkeys & still the silence roars; where an even handed curandera, dusky sky shrill with parrots, soothes the light out into a lullaby of night by stirring the stars; where then they elect one of their own to melt us into thin air of fluteful altiplano; this relative, unknown, is paddling a slowly spun murmer up on & into the thick amazing amazon; where, all, a treefull of white birds, at once!, arcing up, wheel away; jungle personified, carnaval bahia, howling love liquid life overflowing be-sambaed beatitude be elbowed be free; some bus or boat back to itaparika becoming itself one big hundred handed drum, cycloning songs past memphis through ios, fez to samoa, tenerife to oudaloo, accra, amsterdam, toward nomadhouse mount tam;

where the i an’ irish heir bristles with doolin whistlery; as in yuyulating himalayan upspringings, opening ascent encanted, best of character mirrored; & where stick dancers & drum talkers & moonlit wood blown four tone tête-à-tête-ers tip tune for a tune twixt the hillsides of togo under the camaroon; whilealways elsewhere haole robert louis stevenson’s gentle court of kaiulani does just her honor, drawn in mist, amidst aloha of cetacean song; where, as over here, yawn the fog guzzlers, reserved, resilient, lending spiritual power to the bay & away, & hoisting the broad unmodified banner of california unto essential humanity & toward a humble revival of rhythmic at-oneness with swirling melodious earth & cosmos! song sung anahata nada aum!