Tone Deaf

Rocking the phraseology of April
a type of currency

         snare drums & Ave Marias

                  except she meant every word of it

& like crossing the bridge between
summer rain & revelation
"There's more where that came from"

where it went

The clouds over Four Mile Beach
resembling ancient Chinese poems

         & why not the singing telegram
                  & whatever was spray-painted
                           on the overpass