Friday, July 10, 2009

I'm so lonesome I could cry

I first taught my fingers
how to walk the blues pentatonic
over Hank William's chords

sat for hours as they roamed
over rosewood, listening for
silent falling stars

and tonight, it is cloudless
over heavens that regard
calluses as hard-earned medallions

and blue-collar-moons
don't mean nothin' ornery
in the countryside of
a worn down acoustic

that shapes its hillsides
with the tension set just a little
too high

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