RAW FULL MOON AND GOSPEL SONG

ThoU and I/I and ThoU

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Come to me with your coal and diamonds:

with your armor and secrets;

with your sweet water;

with the vast blue sky in your mouth and ear;

with your worn and eternal humanity; and

with your desire to open your blood

to love.

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Come to me with your root and veins:

in mud and debris;

in fear and bitterness;

in uncertainty and tears;

in shreds and shame; and

in belief and faith

to love.

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Come to me with your hands open:

to breathe;

to fall;

to rise;

to break open; and

to speak and sing

to love.

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Come to me with touch and a soft candle:

for no language;

for music;

for unbound universes;

for unmade bed cathedrals; and

for joy

to love.

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Come to me to release the divinity:

of all the colors and tastes and sounds of true blue;

of once excruciating scars;

of nourishing and unspeakable sex;

of gentle caress; and

of being found

to love.

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As a gospel song of freedom,

I will respond the same

for you.

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To, for and with love.

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Catherine L. Johnson

24 June 2010

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Patricia Barber “The Moon” 8/8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluIdMZ7zIU&feature=related

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Live at Montreal Jazz Festival, 02.07.2001;
Patricia Barber – piano, vocals;
Michael Arnopol – bass;
Adam Nussbaum – drums;
Stefon Harris – vibraphone.

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http://jazztimes.com/articles/28519-nicholas-payton-where-raw-talent-meets-controversy

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