Elegy: Don Cherry and Don Pullen (1995)

Not the clarion trumpet of Bach or a bullfight,
but the pocket trumpet's rasp that turns
pinched cry into wry joke
and makes sorrow dance.
Not just piano notes, but the whole keyboard, the grand
church of piano cascading down
into forty nights of flood,
then as the dove.

I am a combat-wounded Vietnam veteran and a new father. Chris Gompert