The Musician Approaching Sleep

J. Morris writes a poetry of deep composure. A poetry wrought in the face of what at every moment awaits in life to still the phrase, the line, the breath of the musician. That is to say, the musician we all are when under the baton of the heart s conduct. His poems place us at that threshold where song meets death s silence, even as Orpheus experiences it, in the moment played over and over, held between eternal hope and the intransigent ineluctables of loss.