bouquets...

A salmon sky
A salmon color tie
A lonely painter
A breath
& the movies begin on Kathryn's house
Bouquets
- -
Painted

library sails acrylic...

this coastal song...

The hill is very still
No sun it is six
A mast, booms, red & blue hulls
The gallery in the ocean & the sky
Forlorn
This coastal song
This morning

black irises...

Black irises
Fill
A sunrise gray
Shadow paintings out of focus
A cool morning in from...?
Rain...?
But here it will be a beautiful day
It's here
Funny sun
Kathryn's theater now alive
The big screen playing
Oh, oh there it's gone!
Balusters & boards
The end.

memorial day...

A distant cannon
Flags from here to Whiting
Ceremony
Solemnity
Our hearts
Filled;
While...

peter d pencil sketch with color by jean d...

one take...

In
Pink
- -
The morning over McGonigal's roof
The sky
A savannah tree grows high
In the grey
Flags on the street are just awake
A flutter in the flowers
On the hill up to the big church
Color in the overcast
Color in the steeple
Blue on the horizon
On the sunrise
The water is breathless like the leaf
Breathless
As the mauve house across the street
Becomes
More
Pink
Hope
For
This
Day
& its sailors
Their hands strong on the calm
The
Paper
Charts
To
The
Sun
& the Cadieux pretty light
This stillness of a mixed morning sunrise
Blues & darks
Then the shadow paintings come &
The
Painters the poets the gardeners
They make
The flowers in the world

gift from annie...

Water night purple night sky blue dots
A red sail
A gold boat
In
The
Sunny
Glass

movietone...

Paintings
Of trees & leaves
Angular boards & softer silkish gauzier things
In grey
In charcoal
In shadow
On the mauve house in the morning sun
Grey curtains too
Some straight some wrinkled some plain some lace
& a pinwheel of burgundy sticks
Between
The
Porch
Windows
Thus
This
Another
Description
Of the mauve house in the morning sun
Across the street
In
Movietone

jongleurs wandering...

Jongleurs wandering
Tom Waits! Tom Waits!
In Picasso's Circus
On
NPR
Hats
Bells
Ribbons
Shirts
Diamond shapes
White face & accouterments
Under
The
Big
Top
Caravans packing up to the next field the next town
- -
At Picasso's Circus de Ville

troubadours...

Troubadours
On garden lawns
In great halls
In bistros on the corners of busy streets
Sinatra
Jobim
& Harry C.
The hip the hap the hup
Ciao, Dindi
Ciao

to fish...

That orange sky on the roof boards
Painting songs
Of
Birds
&
Crows,
Window panes reflecting
Flag
&
Wreath
&
Red boats escaping the rip
To
Fish

plato's theory of forms - especially the form of redness...

Forms
The sun
On the mauve house across the street
Shadows
On the bay gulls
A cat gathers
At
A
Crow's
Thought
Boxes of flowers & dew & light
Forms
Of dew & light & thought
Beauty
- -
& red flowers

lunch on the highway on me in Paint...

lunch on the highway on me...

Maynard Ferguson plays Gonna Fly Now
Live at the Blue Pelican
The roof came off & the building fell down
&
A tent flap flaps
&
Mrs. Peter Baxendale sketches the circus
On the road
1931
A road show
"Lunch on the highway on me, Mrs. Baxendale,"
Maynard said

8:00 P.M. ...

8:00 P.M.
Tidal Falls
A black sky ahead
Raining
The sun is in the tops of the trees
In the church steeples
In the rearview mirror the sun is setting
On a red gold sky
A rainbow shoots out of Schoodic
Across the Silent Bridge
Arches out of Flanders Bay
Across the road
& like Anita O'Day at Mister Kelly's
1958
Times
We
Knew
Would not end

in the crayon tin...

Modigliani-like
In the crayon tin
Her long neck
Like
A Duke Ellington piano solo
Lush
- -
The quiet morning
Quiet rain
Lush
In the crayon tin
Green grass & green trees
Beach roses
&
Rocks & a spitting sea
Lush
Out there a boat heading to Boston
The perfection of quiet mornings
Lone
Lush
Orange
&
Pink
In the crayon tin
The piano room
In a corner varied colors of firewood
Yellow chartreuse saddle brown
The imprint of a daisy flower on one
Near the great wood carved heron
Near the fireplace
Near the marsh grass arranged in a tall China vase
Lush
- -
In the crayon tin

tall blue trees...

Tall blue trees
In a starlit row
Crows
Steep
On Winter Hill in the evening
Gulls & boats
&
Bays & harbors
A flag bent & tattered in the magic light
Hands & takes shutters spin
The glow
- -
&
The river walks

the piano room suns...

The piano room suns
Yesterday
Blue Tail Fly
Jimmy Crack Corn taken on a jazz romp
In the piano room
The suns warmed on the back of my neck
Through a hundred sky blue windows
& on the small table by me
A wooden decoy preening its red feather
& a ceramic lamp hand painted also sky blue
Lighthouses & seas
My grandson wrote two songs last week
Just Plain Coffee & Contradiction
"Play the chords with your right hand
The melody with the left"
Oh!
Full of bobs & weaves (to use a boxing term)
Oh!
&
- -
That's a way to
Jazzing up Schumann

a breeze in the red leaves...

A breeze in the red leaves
Gold light on the green trees
Across the window
Cool
Puffs
Huffs this Sunday morning
A
Purple
Wildflower
In a water glass on the breakfast tray

two days now...

Two days now
Rain
Gray &
Cold
Raindrops hugging branches green
Falling then
To the grass & the walk
The whir of water in the street
The traffic stirs the street
The circus trains
Run
Now

circus land...

Circus land
Carts calliopes creamsicles
&
Wagons
Poles cloth stakes
Canvas & flags
Horses
Hoops &
Flamingos
Fire bursts top hats & tails
Tights & fishnet stockings
Floppy collars
&
Ruffled shirts
R
I
B
B
O
N
S
Trains pulling out of Sarasota
A Picasso bouquet of flowers painted on her apron
As
Harlequin
She posed
Miles Davis slept
Prancing Dog sleeps
High wires
&
Comedie
&
Sadness
- -
She dreams
Meadows
&
Seas
- -
& cotton candy

sunrise at monument bluffs...

The morning sun is orange
Up the hill
A pink gold
On the mauve house
Salmon house
Butternut
Blue
& the brown house
Down the hill
All the fences lavender
& the gulls pink
- -
Pink
This morning

in cars...

Poets
In cars
Awoke the gruffly morning
- -
Barefoot
Now
- -
At
The
Sea

fourth street...

Fourth Street
Jazz
Scribbling poetry on a napkin
Hurriedly
Jazz
In May
Thoughts of Cadieux's 2008 Pembroke Winter
&
Talk of jazz
At the Fourth Street Diner
No Pretty Boy Floyd leaving the Bijou with the Lady in Blue
Or Dillinger & a Lady in Red
None of that!
Just
Jazz
Omelets & coffee & juice
Toast jazz
&
Jazz
The Fourth Street shiny silver diner
12 Meter boats in the harbor
Jazz in the park
Trombones
Model Ts
&
Anita O'Day
In
May
- -
&
Thoughts
Of Pembroke Winter
- -
Gerry Mulligan Gerry Mulligan