Edward Smallfield

(Bud Powell: I'll keep loving you)

                             the lyrics                  misplaced
somewhere between     Montmartre      & New York
                                                                  the work
by & among        the chords    & silences    'faces
                                                       with distingué traces'
what one piano learns      another          uncorks
          the cathedral of         the river              forks
a hint        of addiction to                                 the pace
                                                                  'in walked Bud'
                                                             'the dance
of the infidels'                                     in whiskey pants
                                                  in April in mud
                                                              a ballad
                                                  'I can't remember the words'