Tuesday, July 6, 2021

COLE EUBANKS—"RETURN OF THE TENOR" (Issue 22)

RETURN OF THE TENOR

Last night I heard the cellomoan
of that hoot owl again.

Most evenings it sounds like
Pablo Casals, but this time he

was my dead father humming
Italian Opera. We rode arias

from Aida, Tosca, and Pagliacci
straight through to Maryland.

The second we crossed the Mason
Dixon, the curtain came down.


ABOUT THE POET 

Cole Eubanks is retired as an educator for the Philadelphia, PA and Atlantic City, NJ School Districts. He was the featured poet for Atlantic City’s Sovereign Avenue Black History Jazz Celebration for eight years. Cole’s work can be found in Poets Against War, Apiary, The Journal of Baha’i Studies, F(r)iction, and Haiku in Action Gallery.

 

ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW 

We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an opportunity to better hear our contributors. We’re featuring audio recordings of poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to hear it.

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