FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: PANTOUM FESTIVAL Send up to three pantoums on any subject, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on December 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pantoum Festival will be published online and will be invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, December 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, December 15, 2023

Bill Cushing

Leon Redbone in Toronto

THE REDBONE PANTOUM

 

Leon decked out in black, Ray-Bans perched on

a Syrid nose, his drooping moustache surrounds

the soul patch: a musical sage

peering from beneath that Panama hat.

 

Leon fretted multi-tonal sounds

from each and every timeless tune

with a voice sometimes smooth, then scat,

while coaxing that acoustic guitar.

 

Leon, ageless as a harvest moon,

did not die so much as exit the stage,

returning to the Araby bazaar,

and though gone, he continues to shine on.

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