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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Augmented with Jazz


Scanned from a compact disk, the harmonica
still retains that congestive exuberance
of its salival emanations—to which my wife
taps a foot and nods the unconsciousness nod.

It is an enchanting time through which we bend
our skeletal planes and dance or smile or press
the advantage:  outside our window the pine's
illuminated trunk is stunning at this hour; so what

can I suggest to describe the intimate beauty.  I am
a dolt to hope—and also confess to being equilibriously
affected by this odd and enormous symmetry
of the pinus lambertianna...  Music can drift

through the trees and ribbon their limbs and caress
their needles and cones.  I can only watch, trembling,
      listening.



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