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photo via Pickpik.com
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Touched By
Another’s Strayhorn
Orange wings spread
………………………….No flutter
A butterfly glide crosses
An outside window glance
Much in the manner leaves dance
Morning’s warm first breezes
And John Hicks is heard feeling
“Something to Live For”
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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.
Click here to read Proceeding From Behind: A collection of poems grounded in the rhythmic, relating to the remarkable, by Terrance Underwood
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Listen to the 1998 recording of John Hicks performing Billy Strayhorn’s “Something to Live For” [High Note Records]
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