Riffs Are Invocation

A jazz quartet (piano, double bass, saxophone, and drums) plays at a late-night club.

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Riffs are invocations,
Odes direct to soul,
Brief improvisations,
Each a perfect whole.
Rhythms subtly shift
The syncopated rhymes,
Grace the complex gift
Of this, my own sweet times.
Let me be their chronicler,
Days of seers and signs.

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