BETH FELDMAN BRANDT
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RetroLove is serendipitous meetings, Instamatic cameras, tissue-paper blue aerograms, transistor radios on a blanket at Jones Beach, scratchy vinyl LP’s and static long-distance. A first kiss under a streetlamp. A loved-long life. These sweet and sexy poems will take you back.  Snuggle up with the collection of poems published by Greenleaf Poetry Press.
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RetroLove was also an evening-length performance of poetry, jazz and songs, originally presented by Philadelphia Jazz Project.  Get more info here.

RetroLove: The Song

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When it spilled from the dashboard as we drove 

to the shore in my yellow Oldsmobile with the top down 
and then again from the dial-tuned 77WABC, transistor radio 
on our blanket on the sand at Jones Beach, 
we figured Cousin Brucie was sending us a sign -- 
and we spun that tune from the black vinyl LP 
held tenderly by the edges, dropped the needle again 
and again, so we could slow dance when we were together 
and sigh when we were apart until the groove wore down 
into a stutter skip right before the second chorus 
which made it, irreplaceably, ours, and now Cousin Brucie 
is pushing 80, and the tune has gone digital, its underlying 
hiss erased, but still when I hear it, I wait for the stutter, 
the way my heart still skips at the first notes of us.

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