You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
You are (we are) one light, / Myriad each one, / Reflecting among an infinity / Of lights from moment to moment.
with Kidd Jordan and Roger Lewis in the November
1, 2019 tribute to KIdd at New Orleans Jazz Museum.



with JoiJoi (Michelle Jacques, Louise Robinson,
Darlene Spears), recording "Love Is The Main Flame"
in San Francisco, 1991.
with 'Apprentices', Wesley United Digital Arts & Training Center, New Orleans, 2009.
NINE LINKS to Free Us MORE ... A Flipping-the-Script post, Nov. 11, 2021

with Maryse at Sticking Up For Children's second Music & Arts Day, New Orleans, 2013
You are (We are) / Each and All One Light, / Reflecting among an Infinity / Of Ever-Changing Lights /
From Moment to Moment. / Shine on!
'Francisco Xavier Alarcon
Francisco Xavier Alarcon,
Learned from his grandmother
About peppers;
How to coordinate colors,
As in an illustrated children's story;
And how we may be kind to plants.
Francisco opened our 1998 reading
In the downstairs performance-space
Of the Black Cat Café on Broadway
In San Francisco’s North Beach
With an invocation to the Four Directions.
He held a bowl upturned for the Rain,
Shook his Rattle to invite Wind,
Spoke ceiling-ward for Sun and Moon,
And then bent for Blessing
From North, East, South and West.
There, in the nouveau Black Cat,
Amid cushioned leather and cocktail-tables,
Young Hipsters born decades after Beats.
Repeated and acted out their honoring
Of Francisco. They said "Ah!" and "Oh!"
And clapped throughout our show
With Kevin Carnes on drums-set and percussion,
Richard Howell on saxophones
And dùndún talking-drum.
About Javier, Francisco was still marveling.
He told me at their house as we had drinks and tapas
The evening before our reading at a Gallery
in Davis, California, 2015
(Thank you, Andy Jones):
“Can you believe this happened?
I still can't believe it! Good luck--
A miracle I don't deserve....
I realized what I've always
Wanted is simple: Someone to love
And who loves me. I am blessed!
Blessed through the Want Ads!"
Francisco Xavier Alarcon,
The trio of your names
Rings a fitting Processionale!
You are round multiply!
Schedules distract you
From the fruit (yes, a fruit
May be, like Horton, a who)
And children WHO
Inspiring lines and memories
Of the women who taught
You--as you say and we know, Francisco--
Everything important.
Siempre, they moved you
To causes for justice.
You were and are the whole bowl and rainbow
Francisco Xavier Alarcon--
Colors, pools and rain,
July 22 and September 13, 2021—
first version February 22, 2016

