steady & solid pencil sketch...

tom-tom...

A forties song
Her ribbons
Purple & such
Around the room
The ceiling glazed with stars
Colorful beats
To
The
Tom-tom
&
The trumpets breathe
Chiffon
&
Her

*thinking of the Totem Pole ballroom - no longer in existence.

sketching...

Under a beaded lamp -
Sketching
the fall & the quiet

dave mckenna pencil sketch...

concords & pegasuses...

Breathe like the leaves this morning
Cool
You know you played
The game
The song
Chart rooms & plaza bars
Concords
&
Pegasuses
All
Breathe easy now
Breathe like the leaves this morning
Cool

*for jazz pianist Dave McKenna died Saturday, October 18; he was 78.

blue savannah...

Under the blue sign -
Two antelopes
enter the savannah

the capton's sea cape...

The Capton's
Sea cape
Salted & torn above the beach
Worn rooms tacked on
Worn decking tacked on
All around
& she looking out
& breezes & moons & flowers watching too
The rose petals scattering away
Over the paths & over the hills
& they
Brushed her face
- -
& she felt it

october morning...

The quiet music
Of the furnace on
The wave of a curtain over a duct
The
Rubbish
Is
Out
- - By
- - The
- - Street

a foggy day...

At the far end of the long low table
A clean ashtray holding paper clips & rubber bands
No smoking in the piano room
A foggy day
In the wood box
Wood
For the fireplace's white washed brick
&
Driftwood
Not to burn
A foggy day
In a glass case a square rigger
Ship O' War
In a vase tall beige fans dried from the riverside
Next to the great carved heron
Peering into the fireplace
A foggy day
Up the Paris street
Umbrellas & easels flowers & gin pouts & creams
In the painting hanging on the wall
A foggy day
In the piano room

self pencil sketch...

hagler pencil sketch...

lemon color...

Last night
The moon came out across the street from the Town Spa
Behind a cloud
Behind a tree
Behind the telephone wires
Full
&
Rising
&
Lemon color

in the piano room... (again)...

In the piano room
The big clock chimes eleven-thirty
Outside
Green leaves wobble
Others ripped orange & red
The sun flicks at the French doors
One hundred & twenty-eight panes of glass
Shadows & steppes
St. Louis Blues
Outside
Hauling boats out of the river letting out to the sea
A boat towing a daysailer
Trucks backed in lined up down the slope
Play free
Play free
St. Louis Blues
In the piano room
Pictures & three lamps lighted low
Montmartre
She
Sings in my ear
'secret of life is enjoying the passage of time' *
St. Louis Blues
Play free

*James Taylor lyric

a gift...

A gift
Under the moon boats & moon & sun
The
Oceans
At
The
Shore
At
Inverness
A gift
Under a purplish moon a blue shack sings
Unsure
Unsure
A gift

sketch for a tile painting...

senator obama pencil sketch...

this blue dance...

In front of the fireplace
in the fall -
This blue dance

i can't see baltimore...

A lonely train whistle this morning
Going to Boston
I imagine there is one going to Baltimore too
I can't see the moon
A car starting on the street
Another going by
I wonder how the Asian markets did?
I can't see the moon
Another car
A truck this time
Things seem okay
Now anyway
- -
I can't see the moon
&
I can't see Baltimore

alana davis watercolor markers...

a poem for tomorrow...

The quiet is you
Songs
Breathing
On the wind & the flowers
Oceans & streams
&
The paths in the stars -
A whir

aren't they...

Write
A song to her
Calico
&
Magnolia
&
Rushes of blowing willow -
They are a graceful tree aren't they

autumn...

Sunflowers & lilies
at the end of the day -
Autumn

cando sailor acrylic in progress...