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From Slate:

A Riff for Sidney Bechet

By Stanley Moss

Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 7:42 AM PT

That night in Florence,

forty-five years ago,

I heard him play

like "honey on a razor,"

he could get maple syrup

out of a white pine,

out of a sycamore,

out of an old copper beech.

I remember that summer

Michelangelo's marble

naked woman's breasts,

reclining Dawn's nipples—

exactly like the flesh I ached for.

How could Dawn behind her clouds hurt me?

The sunrise bitch was never mine.

He brought her down. In twelve bars of burnt sugar,

she was his if he wanted her.

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