Sensing the latticework
of spiderwebby threads
spun around the globe
- traces in time
of Shabtal Zisl ben Avraham's flights
on silvery wings
throughout his career,
747s & Concordes airing his thoughts,
unwittingly mastering the minds of the many & the few -
it is easy to imagine the jewel-like dimension
about this apparent world of rocks & flesh,
the white highways of exhaust in the heavens
wound together
'tween the points of make-do revelations
from Torah & the Hibbing mastermind;
arenas, concert halls & coffee houses,
from Talking New York to Pay in Blood,
from Fixin'-to-Die to Crossing the Rubicon;
the glimmer of stars on that black sky;
the habitat & backdrop of all tales,
tall & torn, far & wide,
in the reins of Isaiah & Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Habakkuk
and the latter day John the Baptists,
from Anthony Scaduto to Conlin Heylin