LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE Kyle G. Dargan   OOTH JAZZ A good song can enter church sweaty —sea-skinned— can wake Sunday morning still swollen from having been sliced in the wee hours by a blade dipped in curiosity, the notes replicating like antibodies. A good song can croon god being that same love whollified by two. It moans for salvation's on-time arrival and awaits the organ's throat singing with penitence. A good song is song, neither father nor son nor mother. It is the Rubik's of a zygote turning-turning, straining to decide which of its faces will be blue.     Kyle G. Dargan is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Wriing at American University and the founding editor of Post No Ills. His poetry collections include The Listening, Bouquet of Hungers, and Logorrhea Dementia. His nonfiction has appeared in The Star-Ledger and The Root. His work has been awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and he was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's "Forty Under Forty: Young Washingtonians to Watch." Dargan serves on the advisory committees of Split This Rock Poetry Festival, The American Poetry Museum, and Torch.   Published in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.   To read more by this author: Kyle Dargan: Wartime Issue Kyle Dargan Kyle Dargan: Museum Issue