steve dalachinsky - a hard walk (evan parker – john zorn duo @ the stone set 1 10/8/09 – ned rothenberg sits in for last tune)

a hard walk
(evan parker – john zorn duo @ the stone
set 1 10/8/09 – ned rothenberg sits in for last tune)


1.
a hard walk to the opening
space so full of bodies
track down survivors caught
here
in the obsession with found objects
lit surface & sirens come gone
no more surrounding

ned sits near dressed in black waiting for his turn
listening intently

what criteria is left
where does the ball park end?
where’s the other side of the fence
the stretch?

ned’s listening so well
soon it’s his turn
a different sort of emergency

he steps up they all sit

2.
you have these 3 guys up there
now/later duplicating different patterns
the leaves & branches make on the brick
so exquisitely

time was the elixir ever flowing
was very hard to reach
now it’s bottled in plastic for everyone
to taste - spring offered in cheap plastic
bottles that get caught in the tide
a slow trot becomes a cakewalk for masters
cheeks belie expulsion breath
a seed is neither born in a week nor an hour
a seed disappears as soon as it appears.

dalachinsky nyc 10/08/09