Alan has been busy, and I've been delinquent in not getting his work posted! Here is a great one from this past Spring:
NIGHT TRAIN
For Oscar Peterson, And All Of His Piano Jazz.
we keep thinking
of the train
on that album cover.
it’s the blue shades of jazz
and the train engine in the picture,
and oscar’s sound
that keeps it speeding all along.
… at night:
oscar on piano:
da dit … da dit …da dit
just like
rail tracks clacking.
in a dream, years ago
the same train still rolls up
to the station.
we both met then, and both of us said
“it will
all work out all right.”
oscar’s still playing
that song over & over
now recorded
in my memory.
recently,
now in another dream
the train still rolls up,
among the hissing of steam
and some other train sounds.
there’s still some voice that says:
“the train
may not come
when you want it to …”
“but it’s always
right on time.”
Published by: JerryJazzMusician (a national online jazz journal), in “A Collection of Jazz Poetry, Spring 2020 edition, May 12, 2020.
Here is more commentary by Alan about his poetry:
May 12 I had some great good luck and published two poems at once on Jerry Jazz Musician. “For The First Time, I Heard David Sanborn Play Jazz” was one which I had previously published in WestWard Quarterly in the spring of 2019 and you will find on this blog if you scroll down to that time-frame.
The second one is “Night Train.” which is my latest poem written and published. What a blast to send it to Joe Maita, Publisher and Editor, and two days later he writes and says he will publish it. This is my 22nd poem published with JJM and my 143rd poem published overall.
I think his poetry is great, especially since he is so successfully combining his literary and musical talents! Wouldn't it be fun to be in a room where we could sit and enjoy his trumpet to the sounds of a great reader reciting his poems? Keep up the great work Alan! You make KHS65 look sooo good! lvr
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