Life goes on, dancing to a rhythm, a beat all its own. And the beat the author hears is much like Jazz Music-free-wheeling, going this way for a while, and then suddenly, without warning, the other way. All seemingly random, and yet strangely holding-together, forming moods. The poems in this collection are those beats, those moods, that rhythm, rendered into language-Jazz Language. TOM BANKS is a graduate of Indiana University with an English major. His work has appeared in "Collected Whispers" published by The International Library of Poetry and "The Northfield News," Northfield, Vermont. He lives in Taos, New Mexico, with his wife, Diane.