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Guttled Limbo Tree at National Key Deer Refuge/Kristie Killam/USFWS/via Flicker
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Featuring Kenny Drew
Philip Catherine &
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, 1977
Of a remaining evening’s brief persistence
Viewed from an upstairs window
Focused like a spotlight bloom
Upper trunk to first fork
On mottled Gumbo Limbo bark
As shadows overtake
The balance of this solitary tree
Standing firm on green lawn
I am reminded how Sunset sounds
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Listen to Terrance Underwood read his poem
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Terrance Underwood is a retired Gas Turbine Package Engineer whose career offered opportunities to work all over the world. A devoted jazz enthusiast, his first memory operating a mechanical devise was a 4-speed spindle drop record changer for his father’s collection of 78s. In 2024, he was nominated by Jerry Jazz Musician for a Pushcart Prize.
Click here to read Proceeding From Behind: A collection of poems grounded in the rhythmic, relating to the remarkable, by Terrance Underwood
Click here to read his collection of poems “With Ease in Mind”
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Listen to the 1977 recording of Kenny Drew, Philip Catherine &
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen performing Drew’s composition “Sunset” [The Orchard]
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