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Message Vi Ransel

Get lost
    in the music.
Lay down
    in the headphones.

               Rainy Sunday.
               February
               slush/crushed Italian ice
               in a grey, concrete cone.

The Duke.
And, of course,
                     there's
                               Billie.

Stanley Clarke,
and toocool Miles.

                February rain -
                with a sparkle
                like-cut-glass crystals
                on smogged, Citywindows
                and tarpapered roofs.

February in Manhattan,
a literally cool and sophisticated
juxtaposition of Edward Hopper and jazz....

 

 

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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
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