*This photograph inspired a series of short verses

in recognition of my cousin and her love.


[sixwordstory]

this porgy loves a jazzy bess!

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sultry jazzsongstress met afro-masculinity - musical love.

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chile...they unified love and war.

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a togetherness fashioned from whittled dreams.

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an ode, penned in silent rememberances.

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tasted the sanctimony of his pulse.

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whiskey dark voice sings emotional gamut.

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spice of life traded between glances.

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want that delicious-creole etouffe love...

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bathed in unity; speaking yoruba plainchants.

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in we, we taste solid eternity.

[sevenwordstory]

woman in forties wearing burnished realities...chic

[eightwordstory]

her man; mighty man...and still...her-man.

©2011-SoJourner