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In Their Shadow


As good

as they got

Clapton

Allman and Page

Their music

still borrowed

the Delta

on stage

 

Technique

in the offing

devoid

of the pain

As juke joints

and crop shares

sing out

— in refrain

 

(The New Room: August, 2025)

 

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