Monday, March 4, 2013

DUSTY IN MEMPHIS

I'm listening at this moment

to Dusty Springfield...


God what a powerful voice...

subtle shaded but absolute tonal control

to bring the soft whisper up to

brilliant flare without any loss

of impact


as if all sides of the emotion

were side by side

waiting for their turn to speak


but not polite about it...

just the pure essence at full volume

graceful in its placement of expression


(how pedantic this sounds next to the experience)


but the girl is always in the room


even when Adele and Winehouse stand up in their voices

and knock us on our asses


somewhere in there Dusty is the measure they attain...


happy to have been alive while she was...




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