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‘Button Up’ for 2023

December 31, 2022 by Jan Herman

‘Boughs wet with tears / remind the air / of sleep. / Clouds above the lake / scud on.’

CLICK TO READ. — The drawing ‘Jacob’s Dream’ is by John Constable (ca. 1830). Click to read the poem.

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Jan Herman

When not listening to Bach or Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes, or dancing to salsa, I like to play jazz piano -- but only in the privacy of my own mind.
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