Miles Davis’ ‘Aura’ album between 4.38 & 5.24am.

 Miles Davis’ ‘Aura’ album between 4.38 & 5.24am.

(For Matt Nees)

I had an experience where I didn’t have internet for 10 days so I wasn’t looking at much apart from the occasional picture in a book or just the world.

I woke one morning before dawn & had but one lamplight or maybe first light had appeared. I put on the record & all I could see was the music.

All was sound & it was all there was to any sense.

It went beyond analysis. It was powerful & profound. Beyond words.

Explaining the sacred is impossible.

A scientist might call it a moment of synaesthesia I guess.

But a poet would know that wouldn’t get very close to the ‘matter’. 

It would merely be a written diagnosis.

Communion is mystery not theology.

Such things would happen spontaneously more frequently if we weren’t overwhelmed by visual media and our devices of distraction. & maybe if we weren’t so mechanisticly busy — running to the clock. If our senses could breathe.

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.