Josh SINTON Predicate Trio: Making Bones – Iluso Records 2014 – 2018: ****:
(Josh Sinton; bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, Christopher Hoffman; cello, Tom Rainey; drums)
Poem by Casey Bush

Josh Sinton
The shadow of a tattoo is like meditation best done before an empty mirror, channeling each chakra as a cat chases its tail around the banyan tree. Did we pass this lifetime in a blink or just a twinkle? Each of us wears a mask that reveals the expression concealed by pretense. Memories of a dream are a fenced pasture with an open gate. The water stain on my leather jacket cannot be removed or forgotten but instead must be shed like a snake’s skin. Conflicting opinions mingle beneath an unturned stone. All the windows and doors of the temple

Josh Sinton
by @Scott Friedlander
catch fire revealing the naked pilgrims within. The smell of licorice, sage and cedar drift across the horizon, balanced on the shoulder of a mountain ridge, crest of an ocean wave.