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FrankAuthor(s): Reuben JacksonSource: Callaloo, Vol. 24, No. 3, The Best of Callaloo: Poetry. A Special 25th Anniversary Issue(Summer, 2001), pp. 774-775Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3300180 .
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from Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring 1999)
FRANK
by Reuben Jackson
like god or miles,
no second name is needed.
as opposed to "reservation for sinatra;
party of 37.
can I get a last name, for the maitre'd, you understand."
the heart needs no such pretense
when "in the wee small hours"
plays,
its longing unpretentious and haunting as
moonlight.
a 32 bar ashram;
peace from a boy from Hoboken
if he was an asskicker, so be it.
I think of the brilliant brown voices of my youth;
Callaloo 24.3 (2001) 774-775
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CALLALOO
they too needed
protection,
and nights when the angels needed rest.
I dared not replace his albums
in stores where my face is familiar
-because my love for his sound is as personal as
stretchmarks
surrounding my ribcage like rings on a tree old enough to remember
"all the things you are"
775
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