The Tenor Man
Adrian Green
Pottering around the stage,
a hyperactive ancient in his own backyard
independent of the band it seems.
Disrhythmic shuffling of ashtray,
beer, a pack of cigarettes,
adjusting microphones,
then in the middle eight
he draws, exhales, and catches breath,
stoops forward to the mouthpiece
and blows,
t a tumbling counterpoint,
scales soaring from his horn.
The melody flows
until the break,
and then he shoulders arms,
a truce between the music and his ailing lungs.
Between choruses he sits apart
to light another cigarette,
a sideman counting out the bars
until he rises for the coda –
this Lazarus of swing.
Related posts:
English Poem “Potters' Clay” of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Hippodromania; Or, Whiffs From The Pipe” of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem wit...
English Poems
English Poem “The Rhyme Of Joyous Garde” of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem with summery for ...
English Poems
English Poem “The Properly Scholarly Attitude” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery f...
English Poems
English Poem “The School of Night:” of poet Alec Derwent Hope complete poem with summery for Student...
English Poems
English Poem “Tithonus” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Envy” of poet Adelaide Anne Procter complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Walking on the Estuary Hill” of poet Adrian Green complete poem with summery for Stude...
English Poems
English Poem “Fragmentary Scenes From The Road To Avernus” of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem...
English Poems
English Poem “The Event” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Maktoob” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Lyonesse” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Mirror” of poet Adrian Green complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “El Extraviado” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Tezcotzinco” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Chimes” of poet Adelaide Crapsey complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Argemone” of Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Quare Fatigasti” of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “A Dedication” of Adam Lindsay Gordon complete poem with summery for Students.
English Poems
English Poem “Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summe...
English Poems