blue moon
the scratch and skip
of vinyl records
Published by
Bob Lucky
Bob Lucky is the author of Careful Not to Startle the Yaks (Cyberwit, 2025) My Wife & Other Adventures (Red Moon Press, 2024), My Theology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2018, and Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014). He lives in Portugal.
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blue moon
the scratch and skip
of vinyl records
—Bob Lucky
Great sense of sound, and "feel" of vinyl, as well as its scent. And 'blue moon' is part of so many songs. There's a lot of blue moon songs from The Marcels, Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and the Supremes, just to mention a few!
Terrific haiku on so many sensations!
Alan
I enjoyed this one, too, Bob. It reminded me of a jolly old Russian folksong called Broken Record, cleverly sung to include the repetition but without the annoyance of such.
One I wrote earlier:
churning . . .
gently lifting the stylus
from a cracked 75
I love this! I remember playing a 45 record of Blue Moon so many times,
that my mother begged me to stop.
Great haiku!!
A nostalgic nod to the past. 🌕🎶