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Head Chart

Head Chart

Courtesy Mike Jurkovic

Mike Jurkovic By Mike Jurkovic

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As rain falls on Gethsemane
angels on the highway crew
fix the roads in heaven

Sing acapella big band
Head chart Blue Trane Hoist a shot
head for home

Headlong into the headwinds
Sans the dismal river The smoke dust sky
The steady indictment of time

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2025 -2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Host of NuJazzXcursions, WVKR 91.3FM Vassar College


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