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Deep in the Woods
Dusk’s deep waters envelop me
with the quiet embrace of a Bill
Evans solo, the piano so low,
yet so all encompassing (drowning
me in beauty, beauty, beauty —
to acknowledge the insight of Hopkins),
the dying light a site of all we know
of loveliness and what can be celebrated,
must be celebrated, and dying light
and deep blue song fading, lead us all
into inexpressible depths of loss.
The piano whispers alleluia, alleluia,
alleluia, drifts into a silence of illimitable
elegance wed to life’s loss.
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Michael L. Newell lives on the Atlantic Coast of Florida. His most recent book of poems is Passage of a Heart.
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Listen to the 1962 recording of Bill Evans playing “Stairway to the Stars,” with Chuck Israels (bass); and Paul Motian (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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