David Jibson Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/david-jibson Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:45:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://thepoetrybox.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-GoldNibOnlyBrownCircle-32x32.png David Jibson Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/david-jibson 32 32 136205081 Poem of the Day (04-21-2018) https://thepoetrybox.com/poem-of-the-day-04-21-2018 https://thepoetrybox.com/poem-of-the-day-04-21-2018#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:27:42 +0000 http://thepoetrybox.com/?p=1669 Please enjoy today's selection: "Tracy Chapman" by David Jibson, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music:

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Please enjoy today’s selection: “Tracy Chapman” by David Jibson, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music:

Tracy Chapman

Give Me One Reason presents a real challenge.
What reason, if I’m allowed only one,
would be good enough?

My granddaughter, who idolizes Ariana Grande,
asks me who is singing. I tell her.
Then she wants to know if it’s a man or a woman
because she can’t tell from the voice or the name.

I listen to Tracy strum and pick her way
through the sharps and sevenths
of her perfect blues progression.

I answer back to her,
“Give me one reason why it matters.”

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