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Making Love Listening to Eric Dolphy

Nested into each other,
We listened to Dolphy play “Truth”
as softly as the bedding that held us.

He played that sax somewhere
between a wail and a birdsong,
rocked us gently in a cradle, then

carried us fast to the pinnacle, paused
opened us and blew flute notes
into our embrace as we

floated and sighed, floated and sighed.

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Eric Dolphy was born on June 20, 1928.  He died on June 28, 1964 as a result of a diabetic coma

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Marilyn Mohr is the author of two chapbooks, Satchel and Running The Track, has recent work in the anthologies Brownstone Poets, Fractured Hearts, Poets On The Verge and Jerry Jazz Musician. She lives and writes in West Orange, New Jersey.

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Listen to the 1959 recording of Eric Dolphy playing “Truth,” with Dennis Budimir (guitar); Nathan Gershman (cello); Ralph Pena (bass); and Chico Hamilton (drums).  [The Source]

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