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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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3) Railroad Doves

One could do worse than spend the day
watching them: not quite rock
doves & not quite pigeons, evolving
along the tracks feeding
with each passing grain train
amber in prairie sunlight

The grain is long since gone &
it may be some genetic memory
keeps them clustering on these piles
of deathstone filling
the long line of the coal train
cutting our town in half

The wheeze of airbrakes powering
slap of wings like an eight of
spades in the spokes of a bicycle
& the squealing departure begins
casting off the birds & taking the poison
dust to the next town

The wind brings the stench of coal
I take it into my lungs, knock a few seconds
off the end of my life, breathe out
& in again … out & in again
The Railroad Doves gather & swirl
to a nearby rooftop, await the next train

Late tonight a dragon will swallow
the moon heedless
of the greed that swallows the world
one train at a time &
one could do worse
than to watch the doves

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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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