Sensing the latticework

of spiderwebby threads

spun around the globe

- traces in time

of Shabtal Zisl ben Avraham's flights

on silvery wings

throughout his career,

747s & Concordes airing his thoughts,

unwittingly mastering the minds of the many & the few -

it is easy to imagine the jewel-like dimension

about this apparent world of rocks & flesh,

the white highways of exhaust in the heavens

wound together

'tween the points of make-do revelations

from Torah & the Hibbing mastermind;

arenas, concert halls & coffee houses,

from Talking New York to Pay in Blood,

from Fixin'-to-Die to Crossing the Rubicon;

the glimmer of stars on that black sky;

the habitat & backdrop of all tales,

tall & torn, far & wide,

in the reins of Isaiah & Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Habakkuk

and the latter day John the Baptists,

from Anthony Scaduto to Conlin Heylin