Friday, December 28, 2007

the big poem...

The moon
In the cathedral glass
The jazz killers
The lady
The lady
Holiday
Lady Day
&
Anitah! Anitah!
O'Day
Mingus
Monk
&
Clapton
"yes you look wonderful tonight"
Getz
Chet
&
Joel
"sing us a song you're the piano man sing us a song tonight"
Smoked glasses
Hunched
At the cathedral glass
The windows
Inside the windows
Outside the trees leafless
In a winter tint
Balloons
Red
Chartreuse
Silver
Orange blue & yellow
The
Notes
Of
The song
Anchored
In a pond of purple moons
In the winter breath
"seaside by the beautiful sea"
The sound
The church music
Great through the Vespers hall
On the harbor
On
The
Moonlit wall
Amen
The hopes the wants the needs
The swaying fields
& coral flowers
Of the poets
Of
Joyfully
The
Flat Gauguin canvas
Amen
Ah!
The flights of the Muse
A gauzy wing
See through the angel hair
A curl of a hush
Her
Beautiful
Face
Oh!
Angel Muse
The imperative peace
Of
Brush & pen
Oh!
Angel Muse
Lift the fog
& fan the good heart of the moon
Struggling at her mooring
Speaking to
The bright black night
Wishing for
The color of winter's whisper & evergreen
&
A luncheon on the grass
Of jams & cakes & orange cream sodas