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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Marianne Peel reads her poem at its conclusion.
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photo by Marianne Peel
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Tango in Malaga, Spain: A Walking Embrace
Perhaps it was the way
their bodies wanted to touch
the way their hands glided
from shoulder to wrist
the tilt of his fedora
the way her leg caught the sea air
brushing his trousers
never connecting eyes
the way they met thigh to thigh
and hip to hip
and how the people encircled them
tossed coins into the hat on the ground
this music seducing
even the waves of the sea
this dancing exploring
the space within the embrace
the shy look over the left shoulder,
how they share one axis
this minor key suggestion of lovers,
this fusion of rhythms
this living the music
with every pivot, every lyrical surge
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Listen to Marianne Peel read her poem
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After having taught middle and high school English for 32 years, Marianne Peel is now nurturing her own creative spirit. She has spent three summers in Guizhou Province, teaching best practices to teachers in China. She received Fulbright-Hays Awards to Nepal (2003) and Turkey (2009). She participated in Marge Piercy’s Juried Intensive Poetry Workshop (2016), and her poetry appears in Muddy River Poetry Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, Jelly Bucket Journal, among others. She is also a veteran musician, playing flute/sax and singing in various orchestras, bands, choirs, and jazz bands her whole life. She has published three full length poetry collections; No Distance Between Us, and Singing is Praying Twice are from Shadelandhouse Modern Press, and her latest collection, Untamed Arabesque, is from Act of Power Press
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Listen to the 1935 recording of Carlos Gardel performing the Alfredo Le Pera tango composition “Por una Cabeza” [RCA]
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