Thanks, Kevin,  for finding this powerful address by Dr. King at the Berlin Jazzfest in 1964. King obviously cared about jazz and that makes me respect his humanity even more. I copied the address to chat GPT with this prompt: “Choose the most powerful images in this address to create five haiku.” Here they are.…

  How I Live in Poetry Life like a roulette wheel with black and red and no numbers, oscillating between “Oh, fuck!” & “Don’t freak out.” Both feel right and wrong, coincident. My life, waiting for the ball to drop on one or the other center of gravity, a cat’s whisker on a crystal radio…

Sometimes you need to call on someone who knows you and can help you get outside yourself by answering a few questions. Here are a couple of questions that arose in this article about “moats”. I don’t expect you to do a deep dive into my writing and history, just use your own ‘take’ on…