[poem] 'like a girl saying yes'

[poem] 'like a girl saying yes'
Sebastian Matthewsis the way Condonput ithearing Bix’s coronetfor the first timea mellow tonelofted gently from the bellof the hornlike a girl saying yesor as Louis saidfollowed (no doubt)by his cackle laugh“I’m tellin’youthose pretty noteswent right thru me”