B.Z. Niditch is a well-known poet in the small press. He dedicates his poem ” No April Blues” to poet Ed Galing, who at 95 is still publishing his work in a variety of literary journals. The poem reeks with jazz… and I dig it.

NO APRIL BLUES

For Ed Galing

You carried me
and your sax
down five flights
of a fire escape
in a tenement
when I was a child
took me to hear
Ella Fitzgerald
and Armstrong
in the Village
up town
to a jam session
contending with a kid
with a heart murmur
through snowy streets
hearing beautiful
foreign tongues
and people reading
newspaper print
from right to left
causing us to stop
the music
at the Savoy
you rattle my first song
with me at the piano.

– B.Z. Niditch

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