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Mallory1180, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Donald Byrd’s Late Night Lullaby
The Worker Bee finds a home
In the honeyed tones of a trumpet
As the sun sets earlier, answering
Fall’s call, she stands sometimes
Sturdy as a birch tree, the trumpet’s
Wail suits her majestically. Jazz is
The clothes she drapes herself In, and
Pumpkins bring fall to apartment steps
Long legs hiding under a skirt, longing
To be a teenager, back at the beach, and
The soft sounds of a trumpet remind her
Of ice cream, smooth as silk, sweet as a
Trumpet’ s sound…
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Erren Kelly is a three-time Pushcart nominated poet from Boston whose work has appeared in 300 publications (print and online), including Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine, Ceremony, Cacti Fur, Bitterzoet, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, and Poetry Salzburg.
Click here to read “Under Quarantine” — COVID-era poetry of Erren Kelly, published by Jerry Jazz Musician
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Listen to the 1961 recording of Donald Byrd performing “I’m a Fool to Want You,” with Herbie Hancock (piano0; Butch Warren (bass); and Billy Higgins (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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