by Brad Haas
THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST for John Taggart FATHER Holy Family his delegation,
SON Son of Osiris,
HOLY GHOST Does he control chaos?
NOTE: After John Coltrane’s death, Albert Ayler claimed Coltrane had invented a ‘Holy Family’, in which Coltrane was the Father, Pharaoh Sanders was the Son, and Ayler himself was the Holy Ghost. The title of the poem is taken from the piece of that name on Coltrane’s album Meditations. The sections were conceived as direct responses to the music, as well as ruminating, in the cases of Coltrane and Sanders, on the physical and associative aspects of their names. -BH.
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