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    From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite.
    Featuring poetry by Marc Beaudin and music by former members of the bands Morphine and Orchestra Morphine, Dana Colley, Billy Conway and Laurie Sargent.
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Originally published in "Life List: Poems" (Riverfeet Press, 2020)

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4) Carbon

Driving late night through the pass
with narcoleptic mountains pressing in
from either side & Coltrane struggling
through the static of the radio while

whitebark pines are dead & dying right
outside my window & pelicans & sea
turtles are dead & dying, still, in
the black waters of the Gulf & Éliane

Parenteau, age 93, Alyssa Charest Bégnoche,
age 4, & 45 others dead along the
tracks in Lac-Mégantic but then the radio
clears & a horn sounds out pure as fire

For a moment any future is possible

Until I realize the passenger door is
ajar & the noise & smell of the wind
writhing through the breech become a
presence seated next to me & when, by

degrees this presence becomes palpable
enough to see from the corner of my
eye I speed up & say,
“I knew you’d have dark hair.”

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from From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco​-​Jazz Suite, released May 29, 2022

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Marc Beaudin Livingston, montana

Poetry & spoken word infused with jazz.
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” – John Coltrane

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