This week's poem is from a moment that happened in Michigan's upper peninsula while driving back from some shows I was teching. It's called "Northern Flicker, Highway 2 (Colaptes Auratus)" and is one that I don't often read (if at all). I think I don't like to face up to the bouts of lacks of consciousness that we humans are so damn prone to. But I suppose, if a poem can remind us of our failures, it can also spur us to do better in the next moment. At least, I hope so.The music this week is a song called "Thermo" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers from their album Caravan. Blakey blows my mind. The only drummers who've ever come close to his magic are Nick Ashton of the Northwoods Improvisers and whoever was playing tabla when I saw Ravi Shankar in concert. The Caravan session featured Blakey on drums, Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Cedar Walton on piano, and Reggie Workman on bass.
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