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The Juke Joint

Lucie M. Winborne

I veer at dusk
from the curved Southern highway
toward a light filled with gnats
and yellow bar smoke,

thread my way through the clink
of glasses filled with amber,
the creak of weighted stools
on uneven boards that tremble
beneath baritone laughter.

A young man barks his joy
in rippling currents through the air:

Enos, he cries
to the reed-thin old man
in the lime jello suit,
fingers gone to bone
on the valves of his keys,
Enos, play the blues.

The old man slowly reaches
in the pockets of his youth
where dusty days lie sleeping
like hounds on summer porches,
blows them into the sweat-soaked air.

Bodies curl like liquid snakes
around the notes and each other,
eyes jeweled with passion,
mouths flaring wide in shouts of
sweet salvation.

The young man laughs hot
breath into my face,
his arm my encircling guide.

I am half overcome
by the beat of this animal moment,
half afraid to be swept with this river of humanity,
as deep as good Mississippi earth
and as fertile

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