nat hentoff french crayon...

for melody gardot...

Circles & blocks
Bins of kerchiefs & beads
Colors
Bins of silk songs
Awnings streamers breezes blue
A
Dusty
Street
Market
A fete for Melody Gardot
Sandy walls red rust & blaze
A table
&
Across it
Tea & marmalade peach & apricot
The cloth
Twill
Green & gold
&
Outside
Hammering a jazz mural on that wall
On that crumbling yellow wall
& old tables along that wall
Painted miniatures in a row & one hanging
& a flower pressed in a frame hanging too
- -
A purple iris & the concrete
The color of the evening sky
Day la uh uh she sang
- -
In the Turquoise Room
Applause

little pieces...

hands clasped behind his back
a book tucked under his arm
a favorite picture

&

little pieces...

little treasures
tintypes in old filigree frames
tarnished

bright

cirque du soleil french crayon...

cirque du soleil oh! ...

Spring & summer a ballet the jugglers
Sky Blue
Their plumes peach & violin
Cirque du Soleil Oh!
Colours colour colouring the hearts & the hands
Painting
Faces
Of the trapeze jumpers & the sort
In
A
Great
Dance
& there
Slants & poles ropes & wires
Under
The
Orange
&
Yellow
Top
Rouges
Shadows
Green & pink
Cirque du Soleil Oh!
The elegance the quickness the shine of them
Faster than little deer
- -
The purple ribbons fly
- -
Oh!

little pieces...

just one of those things
- -
bending grasses in the rutted road in the headlamps
streetlamps lighted
that night
in the town in the street

starry water...

Bridges & starry water
Off the port bow the Clayton buoy light
Lap lap
The
H
U
L
L
Running to Boston
Slap slap
The
G
U
N
N
E
L
S
- -
Starry water the night

another flamingo flamingo in a matisse window for kimberly french crayon kimberly likes flamingos...

where...

where
color & timbre leap - -
poetry

flamingo spring...

Flamingos are song
Flowers & dew
Palettes
Blue
The orange mornings
& &
The pinks
The pink evenings
Hialeah ring a ding ding gators & potatas
Jazz & '57 Chevys
Crossing the causeway
- -
Past
The old man's boat

flamingo for kimberly french crayon...

the salad maker...

spode & gold
lettuce
pepper
onion
plum peach & oil
the
salad
m
a
k
e
r

i hear...

i hear the early commuter train
& a bird singing - -
spring?

homage...

& a bird is up uphill
slanted branches beneath its breath
&
now
spring is a pizza a piazza a so & so - - what!
poetry nights reciting
little bebop bands meeting did you say melting?
melting!
not miles not art pepper not chet not basho basho
basho said beauty
beauty
an intricate sewing of canvases & poetry & fugues
paper
& dance
& mache
strings
& chance lilies slapping the upright bass
stut stut stut clifford brown's trumpet is ah ah
ahmen
a
homage
is the sweet poet the sweet poet to read
- -
i was just thinking of paul newman a good man

2009 french crayon...

3:10 to yuma french crayon...

diana french crayon...

1959 french crayon...

1959...

1959
Plugging
The
Jukebox
With nickels to hear
Beethoven
Chopin
&
Schubert
Oh! & Art Pepper too
In the Village
There
Charlie Updegraph
Bob Yap
Kerouac
&
Me
Off then to Balto's rolling white fences
Fast horses
&
Hangovers - -
Ah! Sunlit movies on the blinds
Adventures!
I remember breakfast

4:00 A.M. ...

almost memories...

Collage
Soft mists
Pictures
Hundreds of them dissolving
Purple roads blue edifices red doors
Steeples
& doors & doors
&
Patched
Almost clutter
Almost
Memories

the mustard dress hanging on the back of the victorian door inspired by a poem by kimberly french crayon...

stick masks bobbing french crayon...

straw fields...

Straw fields
Flower trees berry trees it is April
Chairs & walks big spirits &
Big dreamers
In the early morning songs of jazz drifting
In the evening the smell of a circus parade
Pitching
Feathery bobs bobbling
The
Colors
Of
The
Transvaal
Soft & earth
& a jumper laughs
Circus!
Trombones clarinets shop doors open
Stilt walkers seaweed & moss
& moss
Big spirits it is April
Where clipper ships docked
Now
Windows of rose ware cups & bowls & candleholders
Miniature paintings
Block forms put with fabric all colors
White satins & long blues
Far skies &
Stick masks bobbing passing by
Circus!
- -
Big dreamers
It is April

eggshell pink hey!, hey!...

Eggshell pink hey!, hey!
Red flowers hey!,
Cat,
Has the red sketch muse moved?
I think so to Circus Town I think
That town red sketches on a water on the walls
Inside
An old fish shed
The
Show
Red
Sketches
Inside
An old fish museum - - yes, Poet,
- -
The red sketch muse has moved

red sketch souvenir french crayon...

the poetry song...

The poetry song
Waits
Byron
Keats
,
Crayons
Smoke
&
Sea
The poetry song
- -
See

blue boards...

Blue boards close in the verandas by the sea
Weathering gray
Coffees & petty color drinks
Waves
That rain that sea that morning
Boxes stacked
Sail luffing
Black flowers
Hey
Cat
Sing
Jackson Pollock
Play
The last time I saw Paris
Johnny Hodges
That morning gray
Weathering
Blue
On the verandas
Coffees & pretty color drinks some long blue
Her cup is painted like a Gauguin
His like a Matisse
Windows & verandas
The beach is quiet
That rain the screen doors clattering
& the bowling alley is closed
& the windows & the verandas are dark
- -
Then the sun came out on the purple flowers
On the beach

purple flowers watercolor...

chartreuse muse sketchbook unfinished sketch by kimberly...

muse...

M
U
S
E
Sitting on an ocean's rock
Unfinished sketch
In a mist of spray & ocean's sea,
M
U
S
E
Blue gold red chartreuse tawny brown,
M
U
S
E
'
S
Song
Purple birds on raspberry roads
Phoning
Me

ice spots...

Ice spots
On Billow Hill
The blinking light on the street
There
A blue violin plays
Bop
In Jack's Cafe its red roof pitched
So the rain & the nighttime slide off to the curb
A blue violin plays
In Jack's Cafe the stairways are mahogany & polished & bare
& only one picture on a wall up to the barroom floor
That a plain woman long & blue
A blue violin plays
& in the barroom
A mustard stucco mural of great flowers & old movies
Some lilies
Decorate where the people dance
Outside a bus arrives
Painted with great flowers & old movies
Some lilies
Under
The black tin sky
In the glitzy signs flashing
At the crossroads
- -
At the crossroads
In a green window blue
Reflecting ice beer seafood bait propane
Saddle shoes & the merry life
A blue violin plays
Beach rails African pied crows & sailing ships
At the crossroads
- -
At the crossroads

irises dripping watercolor...

irises dripping...

irises dripping
the snow is melting
sun
glinting
off the car roofs across the street
1:44
lunch
& the mail came

over the winter sea...

Coffee clocks & gulls ticking
Over the winter sea
A gray morning
& the smell of snow in the sky
Feathery flakes
Waltzing
Ticking
Over the winter sea