A Poem from Adrian Ernesto Cepeda's Newest Poetry Collection

​The Sound of Surprise

​When those cheeks expand and he exhales
his breath within notes, as his horn blows,
I almost explode, Dizzy with enlightenment.
There’s something about the rhythm, the heir
of his playing, speaking with his mouth
and expressing such beauty on his canvas
of air, gripping his golden trumpet,
and all of the treasures he gifts us, even
when the vinyl is crackling back to the
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac eyes closed
ears open, feeling the wind alone
as Gillespie takes us, each slight return
so adventurous, while reaching inside
his melody lingers resounding this cheeky
giant from his distance, sonically appearing
even as the needle uplifts us,
we feel closer to home.

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Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s Flashes & Verses…Becoming Attractions, a poetry collection that taps into pop culture icons like Monroe and Bowie as he crafts ekphrastic poems inspired by Mona Lisa, composes bilingual odes to Cisneros & Felipe Herrera as his seductive love poems showcase the most original American Latino voice in modern poetry.

Cepeda's poetry is available where all books are sold.