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Peace Piece
………………………..After the song by Bill Evans
Somewhere there are no bombs,
no bloodied bodies,
no orphaned tears.
Somewhere clouds slow dance
in a blue sky, a mild breeze
parts sunflower fields.
Somewhere someone’s lips
brush against a peach-
colored cheek.
Somewhere crystalline clarity
echoes through the soft
curl of night.
Somewhere arpeggios of hope
sweep across a keyboard,
a trill of cool.
Somewhere someone wrote
a serenade of serenity
in the key of calm.
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Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His sixth full-length poetry collection is Pinnacles of Hope (Impspired Books, 2022). His poetry has been nominated three times for both the Best of Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Ibbetson Street, The Paterson Literary Review, Impspired Magazine, Salamander Ink Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Listen to the 1958 recording of Bill Evans performing his composition “Peace Piece” [Universal Music Group]
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