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Charlie “Bird” Parker [French] (Charlie Parker, the Bird)

James A. Emanuel

L’oiseau de peu s’est
fait oiseau bleu.           Quel envol  !
Tous plein ciel.           J’y vole.

Translated by Jean Migrenne

© 1991 James A. Emanuel. All rights reserved.
From Jazz From the Haiku King | Broadside Press, 1999
Reprinted by permission of the author.
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