Tonight Alyssa Trivett returns with her sharp, direct poems. The first poem below is an excellent example.
You
And as
they relayed to you,
with me in
the foreground
as my jaw
dropped,
are you in
any pain?
You
couldn't hear,
you asked
my mother
to repeat,
as she
did,
you
screamed No...
right
before
your brain
shriveled
and they
shoved you, somehow,
in a
stretcher
like a
half-melted dart
on the
bullseye
in the
back of a bar.
You
mouthed that
you loved
us
and I
never saw you so lively
as much as
that time.
And I
still smile,
'cause I
know
you know
you lived it well.
Filming
I had a
dream on
the way
here
that the
camera at the top
of this
stilt contraption
came
crashing down
as a
cartoon anvil would.
I count my
sips from
my cuppa
coffee
and rig my
zoom in zoom out
controller
for a sport
I've only
filmed once.
EZ chair
attached to me,
my form of
canvas
this
evening.
I left my
words at home,
even if
they're
begging
for me,
jumping on
the keyboard
until that
ungodly hour
arises of
me pie-slapping
words into
a soulless machine.
Isn't that
how it always is?
As it
should be.
11:42PM, Saturday the 13th
He paid
for the drink but I
never let
him live it down.
Smoky
eyes.
It's all
just drink rings
on napkins
and a
conversation
floating
through
these
tables
like lost
souls
at a pool
hall after hours,
slam-dancing
into things.
The
evening was unwritten,
one bar
after the next,
and he
clutched my pinky
as always.
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Let's play some hectic late night jazz for this last poem. Here is Josh Evans' "Vibe Up" at Smalls on 4/16/19:
I don't know if the couple in the last poem were out at 3 am, but the musicians in the video below were. The second trumpet player was Roy Hargrove who would die just three months after this video was recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnbfXySq54
The first trumpet player was Giveton Gelin who performed with his quintet in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTz1iUkcW0
I'll finish with a video of Roy Hargrove:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvHcHQ9-jdo
I'll finish with a video of Roy Hargrove:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvHcHQ9-jdo
Alyssa Trivett, is a very talented poet.
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