by KJ Hannah Greenberg

His one hundred styles, friends, additionally, a galley’s musicians, the ilk playing
Trombones, while braiding tight syncopation, giving over beat, maybe posturing,
Blaring, cupping, flutter tonguing, pedal toning, also exploiting vibrato, attention.

Notwithstanding sense, in kin and kind, such as those launch generations to vocal
Sounds, old-fashioned issuing of phrases, form, harmony, expression, novelty,
Perceived none too often like birds, bells, breezes, boldness, translate no late night
Parties, waste no noons, cocaine-influenced mornings, or happy, happy little splurges.

Youth’s discovery of composition, scores, likewise rhythm, color, instruments, usually
Grooves on hidden belly buttons, mewing, spewing, chewing, besides sundry measures,
Sentiments that book, paint, dance, dare us up, up, up, whether baroque, rock & roll,
Jazz, romantic tunes, classical hymns, bee-bop (possibly filled what imaginary cultural
Filaments), mustering blues, good hearts, two timing suffering; working class wisdom!


KJ Hannah Greenberg’s been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature, once for the Million Writers Award, and once for The Best of the Net. She has received National Endowment for the Humanities monies, too. Currently, Hannah serves as an Associate Editor at Bewildering Stories and participates as an Instructing Author at Dzanc Books.

Her most recent poetry book is The Little Temple of My Sleeping Bag (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Others of her poetry books include: Citrus-Inspired Ceramics (Aldrich Press, 2013), Intelligence’s Vast Bonfires (Lazarus Media, 2012), Supernal Factors (The Camel Saloon Books on Blog, 2012), Fluid & Crystallized (Fowlpox Press, 2012), and A Bank Robber’s Bad Luck with His Ex-Girlfriend (Unbound CONTENT, 2011). In 2015, look for her poetry collections; Dancing with Hedgehogs, (Fowlpox Press, 2015), and Mothers Ought to Utter Only Niceties (Unbound CONTENT, 2015).