alongside frontage road between freeway and row after row of row house a piano straddles the broken train track the only thing unparalleled in the room
it leans against the leg that ends with foot pumping peddle as a man plays his cheerful dirge and a lost dog poster sends a telegram to the breeze
lifelong friends this man this piano that leans the dog and the breeze
& though the song itself is new it still sounds familiar to all of us passing by
for Leon Russell
Adrienne Veronese
This article appears in Restaurant Week 2025.