The Sunday Poem: “Gloria’s Step” by Daniel Warren Brown

October 4th, 2025

The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.

Daniel Warren Brown introduces and reads his poem at its conclusion.

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Gloria’s Step Across Decades
………………(For Al Summ)

……… Going into my bedroom at 2 a.m. in 1970
Lost in the meditation of the
……… Bill Evans Sunday Vanguard trio

Obligato revelations of a trio
……… that transformed listening
Right before my ears

……… I knew why Alice needed Wonderland,
heard Gloria’s wondrous light
……… Arabesque approach on the stair

Solar soft moonlight shone, foreshadowed
……… Jade Visions through half opened windows,
Satori steps of a trio

……… That danced through decades of listening,
Even when I sang in 2017
……… the first chorus of Gloria’s Step into my

Passing friends ear, a favorite
……… which I know he loved, a tribute
that began as revelation, a eulogy ever after.

Listen to Daniel Warren Brown introduce and read his poem

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Daniel Warren Brown has loved jazz (and music in general) ever since he delved into his parents’ 78 collection as a child. He is a retired special education teacher who began writing as a senior. He always appreciates being published in journals and anthologies. At age 72 he published his first collection Family Portraits in Verse and Other Illustrated Poems through Epigraph Books, Rhinebeck, NY. Daniel writes daily about music, art and whatever else catches his imagination.

Listen to the 1961 recording of the Bill Evans Trio perform Scott LaFaro’s composition “Gloria’s Step,” with Evans (piano); LaFaro (bass); and Paul Motian (drums). [Universal Music Group]