Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Sunshine Daydream By PW Covington


(LIVE Collaboration with the Grateful Dead tribute band ‘The Deal’)


Songs about those

Golden shore

Troubadours

Return on trumpet bells

Shining seashells

Splendid flying serpents

Miscreants

Galactic streaming

Always missing

Missing


Spirit practice

Trance and cactus

On the Mother Road

All time has taught us

To be here tonight

Mountain sitting

Pickup truck winter

Swinging through San Berdoo

Rewind past to present

Present here, a gift

Dancing


As the walls come down

In Lobotown

Don’t you let

That deal go down

Wise women washed 

In New Mexican grooves

In all right 

Red light tonight

The magic swimming

The magic 

Spinning 


Soundtrack set to 

77

Degrees of integration

Among the alchemists

And warlocks, I write

Those golden shores

As lions roar

Esteemed and dipped in poetry

Returned, for all to be

In turquoise 

Mountain mystery

From the once and final glory

Eclipsing


Poems and little lights alit

Light up and share 

Life’s love and testament

Brilliant, beauty

Beauty

Beauty be


(Written and performed at the Lobo Theater, Abq, NM, Feb 26, 2023)



PW Covington is the NBPF's 2024-2026 New Mexico Beat Poet Laureate.

 Writing in the Beat tradition of the North American Highway, PW Covington has spent decades traveling in support of his writing, and encouraging the creativity of others.

 Covington's latest collection of poetry Vintage Denim is available from Alien Buddha Press.

  PW lives just south of Historic Route 66 in Albuquerque, NM, where he has worked on film and television productions such as Better Call Saul and The Cleaning Lady.



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