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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Michel Krug reads his poem at its conclusion.
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Brian McMillan, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Woody Shaw in 1979
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Every Time
I cranked the Woody Shaw Jr.
“Every Time I See You”
Marveling at the range
Authentic modal with a hint
Of funk giving it a modern feel
And thinking about his precocious
Photographic memory
Skipping grades, like my father,
Playing all over Paris
Imagining him scrawl compositions
Every time he sees a melody
Another musical genius
Losing a precious sense
This time the light
Taking the train from Brooklyn
Never seeing another night
On stage.
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Listen to Michel Krug read his poem
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Michel Steven Krug is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and he litigates. His poems have appeared in New Verse News, Poetica Publishing, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, and many others.
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Listen to the 1978 recording of trumpeter Woody Shaw performing “Every Time I See You” [Columbia/Legacy]
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