momoy: Chumash word for the datura plant, Datura wrightii
among the grander spirits
datura nosed the fiddle
one inch closer to the cloud
upon which the player
—in its guise
as sparrow—reposed
and upon the call of which—
w/ its white throat warbling
we raised the binos to our eyes
and not the other way around
music’s poltergeist
traipsed and spun
the cello was coaxed from its hutch
the beat did not so much
arrive to our ears as
emanate from our bones
divine
mystery they called it.
freckled cowslip.
peach whose seed
undid the tongue
which is now an animal
loosed upon the golden streets