mr. delagar writes me a poem

Since herr dr. delagar has taken to teaching the modern poetry class at our university as well as teaching poetry workshop in our creative writing minor, he is having a poetic outbreak -- writing sonnets and villanelles and and every sort of poem non-stop.  Here is a poem he wrote for me this past weekend.  Since it has music in it I am at a loss (I am a musical idiot) to help with the explication, but I like it a great deal:

EARLY PILGRIM II

Snake of asphalt black through crackle

leave you stop on precipice hanging

watching slow cars five fathoms down

Trees cluster chord Ligeti shades

pass under play out sky in harmonic

dissonance hear the grating tonality

heights magnet you to perch on stones

crush layers assonant chords basal

limestone reddish up I trudge a tuba

hoping for a solo deep amid strings

treetops shudder wind takes your hair too

follow I always will writing chordal thumps

you edge junkie I can bear war and SFZ anti-music

but high up five full fathoms snake road cars

I follow and sure it music be music love.