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Covid Covered? 

There it was
On the waterfront bench
Tempting me
In this Summer of
Covid inspired fears

A little flower framed heart
With the message

Free! Enjoy!
Smile

On the hard cover
Warmed by the intensifying
Morning heat

“One Hundred Years of The Nation” 1965

With a list of authors
My college lit teachers would swoon over:

Sinclair Lewis, Andre Malraux, Thomas Mann
Catherine Anne Porter, Reinhold Neibuhr, Bertolt Brecht

Unexpectedly contemporary essays

and a small poetry
section at the end with

Yeats, Stevens, Auden, Frost, Jeffers

That closed the deal
On the musty tome
Coming home
In this season of closed bookstores
And antisepticized libraries

As the Angel Muses smiled

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photo by Alice Mello

 

Jim Mello is a counselor and clinical supervisor in the substance use disorder field. He’s also a part time clergy person, and has taught in the University of Maine system as an adjunct professor. Besides People, .his passion is music and he.became a poet by default. He has three books published, two by Moon Pie Press, and one self-published. 

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Listen to Herbie Hancock play “Survival of the Fittest,” from his 1965 album Maiden Voyage, with Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), George Coleman (saxophone), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums)

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