One of the better ones.

it's all on youtube;

Patti Smith

playing E-Bow

to the Letter

with Michael Stipe

and the rest of REM. a good performance;

good as Craig Finn

and John Darnielle

or gin with lemons

and expensive tonic. there's something there,

complementary

voices, emotion

tangling like bike chains

broken on a mountainside.

clicking gears

between hard

catching movement

and stillness, weakened

in reverse.

DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019)