HOPE AND ART TATUM
The shortest day
is the longest night,
true,
but that night
clarifies
its cosmology
when the speed of light
is approached;
time slows down and hits a wall
at winter solstice.
In the dimness
is Art Tatum, almost blind,
proving
for all
that Einstein was right,
that our world stops
at perfection,
that minutes reverse
when racing the beam:
Tatum was that fast.
Tatum is that fast.
That perfect.
And
as winter begins
there is jazz:
possibility, freedom,
victory in darkness;
the
beautiful
theory.
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