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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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6) Communion

“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
spoke these words, 1962
the same year Eichmann’s ashes are scattered
on the Mediterranean to be absorbed by plankton
which is eaten by crustaceans,
climbing up the food chain to eventually become
the fish eaten by millions during Passover Seders &
300 people die in Germany’s largest coal mine explosion &
in Pennsylvania, a coal fire begins burning,
decimates two towns & will continue burning
for 250 more years & Bob Dylan
first sings “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”
& 55 years later
I sit outside this bar
in a brief respite between coal trains
listening to the sparrows
discuss a coming storm
the aspens of the courtyard
sighing their thirst, soon to be sated

All any of us can do
(as the first rain drops fall)
is to get closer to the sources of nature
(as the birds fall silent)
& so feel we are in communion
w/ the natural laws
(even though what I first take for thunder
is instead the next coal train
rounding the bend)

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

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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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