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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Terrance Underwood reads his poem at its conclusion.
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If Requests Are Being Taken
If ever
I am subjected to
Further medical exploration
& something
Identified as Bio
Is discovered
Pop any shared opsy to
Record whether
A Strange Meadow Lark
Flies away on
Time Out
Brubeck & Desmond feathers
…………………..If so
Let the music fade
& note the smile
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Listen to Terrance Underwood read his poem
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Terrance Underwood is a retired Gas Turbine Package Engineer whose career offered opportunities to work all over the world. A devoted jazz enthusiast, his first memory operating a mechanical devise was a 4-speed spindle drop record changer for his father’s collection of 78s.
Click here to read Proceeding From Behind: A collection of poems grounded in the rhythmic, relating to the remarkable, by Terrance Underwood
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Listen to the 1959 recording of The Dave Brubeck Quartet playing “Strange Meadow Lark” (with Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello) [Columbia]
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Click here to read previous editions of The Sunday Poem
Click here to read “A Collection of Jazz Poetry – Spring/Summer, 2024 Edition”
Click here to read “Not From Around Here,” Jeff Dingler’s winning story in the 66th Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest
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