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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
DH Jenkins reads his poem at its conclusion.
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Chick Corea and Return to Forever’s album Light as a Feather, recorded in 1972, released in 1973 [Universal Music Group]
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Return to Forever—Chick Corea
I’m in the shade on a 90 degree day
as Chick Corea’s “Spain” plays
taking me back to the Seventies:
long play afternoons,
field parties,
cool moon nights,
a chorus of friendly girls’ faces,
drinking beers near an open fire.
Wild nights learning to drive
being chased by inner demons
finding one’s original self
beside the railroad tracks
then hopping the train to Georgetown.
In head shops learning to listen
to jazz as incense burned
and hemp smoke rose;
learning to see rocks and waves as one;
how everything changed so quickly
back then: Music was the alchemy;
fusion, the message;
vinyl, the currency;
the price of admission, your mind.
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Listen to DH Jenkins read his poem
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D. H. Jenkins’ plays have been staged in California, Arizona, Australia, and Japan. His poems appear in the art films “Call From a Distant Shore” and “Our Autumn,” and in The Tiger Moth Review and Jerry Jazz Musician.
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Listen to the 1972 recording of Chick Corea and Return to Forever playing “Spain,” with Stanley Clarke (double bass); Joe Farrell (flute); Flora Purim (vocals, percussion); Airto Moreira (drums, percussion). [Universal Music Group]
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