Our Basement (Ed) - Ambrose Akinmusire

In the fleeting blush

Between dusk and afterlight

Your eyes were aglow like two moons

Then your smile shot through me

Tranquilizing all the ache

And now I’m higher than the streetlights

Fading on beneath the nightskies blue

I imagine you

Doing simple things

Like humming

One part of a song

That you like

Singing out the words that move you

Down the avenue

While I watched you walk past me

On a day like this

Summer fever’s all you think

No drop can escape this relentless heat

A familiar sound

Passing by cools everything

And I hide my face behind the shame of all the sins

That kept that sound from me

And imagine you

Doing simple things

Like humming

One part of a song

That you like

Singing out the words that move you

Down the avenue

While I watched you walk past me

Down the avenue

While I watched you walk past me

Down the avenue

While I watched you walk past me

In the fleeting…

No drop can escape…

I hide my face behind the shame for all the sins that

Keep this sound from me…

The sound…