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Waking up, beside him,
I pull the sheets over my head …
and with his slim, piano-playing fingers,
he pulls them down again.
His laugh fills my eyes.

He’s up, and tempting me out of bed
with fragrant black coffee --
but I don’t want to leave our nest.
I’d rather stay here, and enjoy the rest
of this late, morning sun -- warming my bum,
as he lazily uses those hands,
whose fingers have been running
scales up, and down my legs and arms all night long.
Crescendos and decrescendos fill his dreams.
My body; a Fazioli, cover open, resounding in the room --
sounding out the chords, F minor … B flat seven, and E flat.
Resonating within, back to where we all begin.

The smoke from the night before, lingers in my hair
absorbed from a retro cellar bar
which decadently ignores the law
and wants to recreate jam sessions long gone,
when folks like Monk, and Billie,
Miles and Horace reigned supreme.

And Ah, Ah! The smell of him --
like a schoolroom in autumn,
it’s a memory ...
sunshine and freshly sharpened pencils
with a hint of fallen leaves.
He smells of learning and growth
and thus, what other sustenance is necessary?
Kissing him I drink in, all – I – need; and it is life sustaining.
Kissing him feels like gulping down
a long, tall, cool glass of water,
greedily, on a hot, hot summers day.

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from NoteSpeak (Amori e Tragedie In Musica), released March 13, 2020

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Lisa Marie Simmons Italy

"Musically & vocally, NoteSpeak consistently changes, shifting from style to style – acoustic jazz solos into hip-hop beats into harmonized gospel vocals into electronic jazz and fusion into free verse rhyming – and yet seems to constantly groove... " All About Jazz Chris M. Slawecki ... more

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