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Trane on tenor

   
  unbelievably feelingly  
  Alabama  
    “something that I saw down there
    translated into music
    from inside me”
   
     

Meditative  deep  & hard

    
 

nearly A Love Supreme

 

 

    
Tension & release    
  prayer & lament  
 

blood & sweat

  
  red clay redder yet  
     

So red

   
  so blue  
  it’s black  
     

Art

   
 

beats death

 
 

again

  
     
     
     
     

Note: The italicized portions of this poem are borrowed from Leroi Jones’s liner notes for the John Coltrane LP Live at Birdland.

    

 

 

  
     

 

 

 

 
Eudaimonia Poetry Review, 2010.