Offseason at Mount Brighton, smooth jazz
Stylings of the Rod Piper Quartet. Chairs stalled
cruciform along the funicular on the hill
that mulls over seasons with silence
followed by contrapuntal clangs
and roars and clamors coming to life
in the dead season of snow makers and
swift downhill plummets.
The ride cymbal plashes through the measure
with a scrutable aptitude that leaves us
sad and listless; there\u2019s a listlessness
to skiing when one has a love for it
as there is to this jazz; listless rigor and
unfounded belief in art\u2019s transcendence;
balance, quad strength, I can\u2019t explain
it but I believe it when it\u2019s enacted
on a blistering high-gradient run.
A guy in chinos, an Izod windbreaker,
and a Titleist hat is saying \u201cMontana
is the place to live for longevity.
There\u2019s not much traffic there.\u201d
Sheriffs and private security patrol
the hill, place of stacked bulldozed earth,
manufactured snow, indelible fertilizer
scent, the skull. The genre gorges on vapor
cooled to white morsels, packs it down.
Little figures hew to the ridge, and I wonder
what they\u2019re listening to up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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