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Mood
Tupelo
She’s
as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee.
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee.
Van
Morrison
I
was never one for high fidelity,
more
like the wanton barn swallow
floating
on air currents, besieged
by
tumescent lovers
blood-breasted
in the blur of their wings.
I
went looking for my muse
in
the pile of classical LPs,
all
bequeathed by the parish priest
who
saw my mother sashay
in
her Tupelo
past
the slatted doors.
You
don’t know what else
I
saw and heard.
Come
into the shadows with me
to
hear our scotch-soaked secrets.
He
never said we were all so damned
we
wouldn’t one day trek to heaven.
But
he came here in his Advent stole
to
love my mother naked
and
kept me quiet with a vinyl windfall
of
Beethoven and Brahms.
copyright Jenne' R. Andrews 2013
2 comments:
I was hoping someone would pick up on that Tupelo cover. Really like that opening line "I was never one for high fidelity", with all its various meanings. So nicely played out, Jenne.
Bella! Brava!
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