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Lush
by Frazier Russell
ISBN: 1-884800-30-0 |
GOSPEL Supine on the sofa this hump of summer night, lupine outside, listening low to Miles’s lush republic of trumpet on It Never Entered My Mind. Outside my window, fireflies & clouds: perfume by the bucket in a five-and-dime sky. & I am lucky enough I know, black-eyed peas & peppers roasting on the stove & Miles’s horn punching its sweet puissant hole, blowing nuance with his thimbleful of notes, eased like water from a dropper this moon & ju-ju night just me & my soul like a Fuller Brush man broke down on his way through the Badlands & no one knows it. Like Miles told: it’s all in the withholding. What you don’t give up you get back ten-fold, so saith he of the bump & tongue– here endeth the Gospel. |
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