Evergreen

Donna Martin

Coltrane's on a forty five

Times the test of what survives

And what will never be

The space between sound is grace

Like staring pure love in the face

Love take hold of me

And show me something that compares



There you go with your danger

Turning flesh and bone

Into ordinary stone

There you go like a stranger

Calling out in blue tones

When I'm alone



Love comes up without a trace

The way that spring can weave a lace

Out of everything unseen

Things made of the common good

They ought to be more understood

They ought to be evergreen

Here you come out of thin air



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