Written Sound

I've been sorting through piles of papers as I pack up my apartment. Tonight, I came across the program from a Danilo Perez concert and found several pages covered in scribbled words. I've decided to post them here so I can go ahead and recycle this program. (Not sure where these words came from; I blame the music.)

#1

I will visit you one midnight
When minor swills will
Mask my feet but chill your heart, when
Fingers will stumble in the dark
Midst pitch bass and the wind

I will visit you one midnight
When trumpets cease to sound and
The carpet is silent
When fans will shake and
Steel will tremble

I will visit you and mar your soul
As I tap my feet to
No one.

#2

If twos and sevens could
Speak to your heart, then
Threes and sixes and eights
Could forthwith depart, and
You would know my pain and
You would know my dark, and
You would know what
Mallets and steel can say

#3: Cigarettes and Smokestacks

Green velvet? Black
Trump sinuous slide along
Red and gold,
Heartbeats on metal and skin
Crawling, symphonic madness
Asynchronous cacophony less discordant
than minds can spell
Black and white visitation
in rhythmic nowhereland
To hail elephantine brass and air

#4

The percussionist drives a primal rhythm, drums silent yet resounding in the mind as brass melodies fill the space, whining and intoning new thoughts while dead grasses whisper an end.

#5

An endless sliding motion
weaves its way across the sand
As rhythms ~~break the silence~~ cross the ocean
on a heart-pound, no sense stand
If hiss and whine can swallow
every ivory reprimand
Who will learn and who will follow
if "if" or "or" and "and"?