the notes poured out

one by one

they hung in the sweaty, smoke-filled air

for an instant

before spilling out like beads of mercury on the wooden

floor,

as each note searched for its resting place

the blue petals fell around my saxophone

and I fell back into the shadows of my dirty city

by Willie Koenig

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NATIVE TONGUES
Spring 1998: Volume 7, Edition 2
Southern Nazarene University
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