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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