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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Charlie Brice reads his poem at its conclusion.
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Reijo Koskinen / Lehtikuva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miles Davis, October, 1964; Helsinki, Finland
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Miles
Yours is the sound of smoke
………………I love to inhale
…………………………the sound of a humid
…………………………summer night
…………………………its cool breeze
Yours the muffled sound
……..of brass along my life
………………of the hard streets
………………of the stage floor
The sound of a dark copper chest
Your voice makes gravel tumble
……..carefully, sparingly,
………………through your horn
Each note selected
……..to break our hearts,
………………to break our backs
………………to sift soul through
………………our midnight world
Yours is the embouchure
……..of struggle and triumph,
………………of blue and prince
………………of brew and bitch
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Listen to Charlie Brice read his poem
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Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His sixth full-length poetry collection is Pinnacles of Hope (Impspired Books, 2022). His poetry has been nominated three times for both the Best of Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Ibbetson Street, The Paterson Literary Review, Impspired Magazine, Salamander Ink Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Listen to the 1956 recording of Miles Davis playing Victor Young and Edward Heyman’s composition, “When I Fall in Love,” with Red Garland (piano); Paul Chambers (bass); and Philly Joe Jones (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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