Judee Sill put Jesus
in the passenger seat<\/p>\n\n\n\n
beside desire, heroin, Bach,
and whoever hadn’t called back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No seatbelts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her chords kept opening doors
behind other doors,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a hymn became
a love song,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the love song
became mathematics,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
then angels everywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n
looking embarrassed
to have been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She sang softly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
strange, considering the size
of the things she was singing about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God. Death. Salvation. Sex. Loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other singers tried
to reach the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judee Sill seemed more interested
in discovering who tuned them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then she disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The terrible ordinary business
of being gifted, wounded, alive, then not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The records remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quiet little machines
asking big questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put one on and her voice enters the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She sings about heaven
like someone who checked the map<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but isn’t entirely sure
the road is open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then comes another chord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
stranger than the one before it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and you understand<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judee Sill was trying
to find the hidden harmony<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that proved<\/p>\n\n\n\n
there had been another world
inside it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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