Below is a poem that Mark wrote after the recording session.

THE WIDE OPEN SPACES WITHIN A BEAT

there is a theory that
some people are able
to slow time down

or, as drummers say:
divide the time

and hear more & more deeply
into the space than us mere mortals

Muhammad Ali was the example used
when this idea was first presented to me
how he'd let himself be rope-a-doped
for ten rounds
and then out of the blue
he'd stop time
and dot some poor unfortunate's lights out

I also posit that Charlie Parker
had these sort of powers

and then there's this drummer in Santa Fe name of Cal Haines
who also, obviously
hears between
the cracks in Time.