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Kostas Kouvidis, by GM Foster
American poet Greg M Foster has written this poem for Kostas. The poem was presented at Half Note Jazz Club - Athens (January 10, 2008) by Greg Foster with the Bobby Watson Sextet.
KOSTAS KOUVIDIS
I did not know him
We traded no nods nor words
But glimpses and grunts
his punctuation was all stops
split pauses dashes
semi colons ellipses elisions
apostrophes parenthadids
demi klooks interrapops
exclamations brief and few
his brushwork was precise
wiped switches snaffles and snuffs
taut as a whisper in a thicket
light as a cats moustache
glancing tricks in brass
hisses glints
top-tocks settin’ the pace
drive that ride
highlights on the shimmering surface
of music
rolls and shuffles
rimsnaps and drumthumps
deep in the pocketa-pock
on the long slide
hip volumes of space
for bass to build his columns in
piano his arched aquaduct
open sluice for tenor to float through
pushing good air
into this smoky moke
his accidental absence
dyes the silence
another color
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C 2007 by gm foster
