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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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photo of Lake Superior via Wallpaper Flare
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Village
The light aspires to be equatorial
but each eroded moment quiets otherwise.
The twilight Superior shore fills
with pine smoke from fire pits
just as Coltrane played in the
smoldering light at the Village Vanguard.
The Poplar River gorge tumbles the harvested
downpour over the boulders’
shoulders with the ferocity
of time’s implacable neutrality.
These North Shore stones pile up gratuitously
like my grandfather’s costume jewels,
multi-shaped sparkles that poke
your hands when you cup them
then let them fall like grain
sifted in a pile.
The Lake is just past ice
it’s depth of churn ever cool
misleading the skeptics to believe
this micro wave is an unfounded fear.
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Listen to Michel Krug read his poem
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Michel Krug’s collection, Jazz at the International Festival of Despair, is scheduled for publication by Broadstone Books, in the spring, 2024. He is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and he litigates. His poems have appeared in Sierra Nevada Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, St. Paul Almanac, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, New Verse News, JMWW, Cagibi, Silver Blade, Crack the Spine, Dash, Mikrokosmos, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclectica, Writers Resist, Sheepshead, Poets Reading the News, Ginosko, Door Is A Jar, Raven’s Perch, Main Street Rag and others.
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Listen to the 1961 recording of John Coltrane performing “Impressions,” with McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); and Elvin Jones (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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