DESCRIPTION:
From "Salins Sings Sexton" at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, Jan. 28, 2013
Laila Salins, vocals; Jamie Reynolds, piano; Marty Ehrlich, saxophone and clarinet;
Jerome Harris, bass

Starry night
The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree
slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon,
to split from my life with no flag, no belly, no cry.