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The Sunday Poem  is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.

Kathryn MacDonald reads her poem at its conclusion.

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photo by Erik McLean/via Pexels

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Musical Invocation

Strains of Charlie Parker’s alto sax fill
the empty apartment song-after-song –
“Dancing in the Dark,” “Loverman,”
“Embraceable You.”
Between every note I wish.
………………………………………How I wish
I had held my heart open as the sea
with its gifts of dolphins dancing
from starboard-to-port, port-to-starboard,
slipping silently beneath our keel,
rising to smile on the Caribbean Sea,
your smile, your arms.
………………………………………How I wish
I could dive deep …..across the threshold
between us.

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Listen to Kathryn MacDonald read her poem

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photo by James Archbold

Kathryn MacDonald has published in literary journals in Canada, the U.S., Ireland, and England, as well as in anthologies. Her poem “Duty / Deon” won Arc Award of Awesomeness (shayne avec i grec, judge, January 2021). “Seduction” was shortlisted for the Freefall Annual Poetry Contest edited by Gary Barwin and was published in (Fall 2020). She is the author of A Breeze You Whisper: Poems and Calla & Édodur (fiction). She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets.

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Listen to the 1946 recording of Charlie Parker playing “Loverman” [Universal Music Group]

 

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