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New Jazz Haiku

Courtesy Mike Jurkovic

By Mike Jurkovic
December 7, 2025
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two bricks from Trane's Dix
Hills holds the blues basic blues
of woman of man

whipping wild car chase
bass drums sax breaks script dancers
scatter bing bang boom

hip and full of head
space starburst arpeggios
run wild eighty eights

pelo's fajitas
spice the air down near Mezzrow's
where the dancers stir

modal dialogue
gauzy muses ghostly phrase
a dollop of bop

flutes and reeds Sun Ra's
dreamscape landscape night sky big
lunar star burst sound

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