Thursday, October 30, 2008

steady & solid pencil sketch...


Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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.

Friday, October 24, 2008

sketching...

Under a beaded lamp -
Sketching
the fall & the quiet

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

october morning...

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

Monday, October 20, 2008

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...


Friday, October 17, 2008

hagler pencil sketch...


Thursday, October 16, 2008

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

Monday, October 13, 2008

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

Sunday, October 12, 2008

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

Saturday, October 11, 2008

sketch for a tile painting...


Wednesday, October 8, 2008

senator obama pencil sketch...


Tuesday, October 7, 2008

this blue dance...

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

Monday, October 6, 2008

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

Sunday, October 5, 2008

alana davis watercolor markers...


Saturday, October 4, 2008

a poem for tomorrow...

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

Friday, October 3, 2008

aren't they...

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

Thursday, October 2, 2008

autumn...

Sunflowers & lilies
at the end of the day -
Autumn

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

cando sailor acrylic in progress...