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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Michel Krug reads his poem at its conclusion.
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Vamping
1. ….Morning light pours into my mind
driving out the blur of last night’s
torrential rain that sketched today’s agenda.
……I inaudibly chant thank you
for feeding me renewal.
A breakfast of baked, skin-on potatoes,
tasting the toil of the paprika, salt and pepper.
2. ….On the road, I listen to my Favorite Things,
Coltrane changing lanes with McCoy Tyner,
Rodgers and Hammerstein.
……I hear the future edges of acid jazz,
that inevitably return to my Favorite Things.
3. ….There are streets with checkered intentions
and vamp separations,
people seeking a dry foyer
and internal stairwells.
……Not much is witnessed,
most is merely conceived,
like images that flash by.
4. ….So I embrace the vamp,
hit repeat, Coltrane delivering me to the morning
separate from the abundance of froth.
……Listening to the edges
of a few of my favorite things.
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Listen to Michel Krug read his poem
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Michel Steven Krug is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and he litigates. His poems have appeared in New Verse News, Poetica Publishing, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, and many others.
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Listen to the 1961 recording of John Coltrane performing the Rodgers and Hammerstein composition “My Favorite Things,” with Coltrane (saxophone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Steve Davis (bass); and Elvin Jones (drums). [Rhino/Atlantic]
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