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photo by Gary Smith/Creative Commons 2.0

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Sinking Into Night

in evening western sky, golden clouds pile
beneath sinking crimson sun and spill
toward river and ocean with the beauty
and rhythmic precision of notes tumbling
from a vibraphone during a dazzling
improvisation by Milt Jackson

drops of falling color from the fading
evening sky spin the mind round and round
with the wild autoschediastic freedom
of sun tumbling into sea and the daring

song of Milt Jackson filling heart memory
and providing a path to a future

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Michael L. Newell lives in Florida. He has two recent books of poetry available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble: Wandering, and Each Step a Discovery, both books published by Cyberwit.net Press.

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Listen to a 1956 recording of Milt Jackson playing Duke Ellington’s “Solitude”

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