CHET BAKER'S BLUE NOTE
 

Take a note slightly flat
with barely a breath, listen for
a bird singing in that air.

The note departs slowly, sadly,
waiting while a cloud changes shape,
something almost promised.

The eyes cannot hold it,
the ears will not grasp its form
yet the heart remembers it well

as a wind tearing a map
from the fingers, watching it
blowing away, not chasing it.
 

© Bob Rixon