In a little blues bar
in a little blue town
cigarette smoke
encircled his head,
a most unangelic halo,
but he kept his eyes closed,
lips pressed to the reed
of that silver Selmer sax.
Its deep-throated notes
hung like tinsel
in the too-warm air
just above the blackened heads
of those who guzzled away
the dust and grit
of another lungless day
beneath shrouded ground
where there is no sun
and canaries go to die.
Arvilla Fee lives in Dayton, Ohio and teaches English for Clark State College. She has published poetry, photography, and short stories in numerous presses, including North of Oxford, Rat’s Ass Review, Mudlark, and many others. Her poetry books, The Human Side, This is Life, and Mosaic: A Million Little Pieces are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Arvilla loves writing, photography and traveling and never leaves home without a snack and water (just in case of an apocalypse). Arvilla’s favorite quote in the whole word is: "It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau. To learn more, visit her website and check out her new poetry magazine: https://soulpoetry7.com/
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