"And the musician shall take flight..."
-- from the Koran
A Tribute to Jaki Byard.
The Piano Player
(For Jaki)
Black fingers curl
stiffly over white keys,
propped on air.
Suddenly a be-bop boogie
breaks loose and his fingers
coax the keyboard
as if it were 1948
and nothing had changed.
Copyright 1999 Elizabeth T. Anderson
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Jazz in EbMaj7
(For Jaki Byard and Alan Dawson)
There is a sorrow song so old and so
slow and so deep in the soul
of a race that it cannot
be played.
Yet it falls,
out of moist breath
and quick fingers
whistling through woodwinds
shaking lanky strings,
tuning itself to the time.
Copyright 1999 Elizabeth T. Anderson
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