February 16, 2008

Cee-Lo Green

If hip-hop is to
survive, like rock it must die.
Atop scrapheap, sing.

-- Eric Beaumont


drumroll to first note
So What trumpet solo --
open golden door

-- Dan Hanrahan


for Martha

ballads blues big bands
professor emerita
Miss Nancy Wilson

-- Kate Ryan Hudson


Ella

Velvet comparison
Undermines her song; my ears
Clouds, perhaps, are better

-- Mark Ziegler


Aretha Franklin

She is still the queen
emoting real life, love, pain
for vibrating souls

-- Beverly Slaughter