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for sonny

By DB Cox

a lone saxophone
bleeds into the wind
the bridge sways
to drums of thunder

pushing him toward
uncharted places
riding the devil’s
backbeat

riffing on the dark
harmony of the storm
showing the lightning
where to strike

big, bebop heart
pumping time
as he tracks
here-there-everywhere

searching—
for a sacred sequence
of notes
to save us all

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