take the coltrane...

Take the Coltrane
Tenor madness
Work song
Duke
Sonny
Nat A.
You
&
Jazz;
You will never cry at night again

the theme is...

The theme is
A gold & orange sky
Orange land
& purple trees
A painting in a window in Newport
& behind it a beach & a sea
Sun
&
Moon
In the winds coming ashore
Purples
&
Turquoises
In a painting in a window in Newport
Reflecting
Steeples
&
Lights
Towers
&
Summer berries on the hill
Masts beams blue shirts & streams
Sailors
With the winds coming ashore
To the striped tents
To dance bands & beer
Reflecting there;
Jazz

blocks...

Squares of color
Mustard
&
Light
Triangles & oblongs
Rectangles
Turquoise
Mints & pinks
Peaches rose & rouge
The houses across the bay

for annie leibovitz...

The fog
A black sweater unbuttoned
Beaded flowers peach tasting
Stitched antelopes
Beige
&
Lilac
The fog on the plain
A photograph alone
Shoulders arms hair strong
Free
On the expanse of the African tree
Her image is grace
The show made black & white
One
Time
Out on a gargoyle
- -
In
The fog

mauve house...

the shadows a moving picture of flowers...

The shadows a moving picture of flowers
on the mauve house -
Sunrise

grey...

Grey & wet & song -
Foghorns a river a walk
in a gauze of dream

purple street...

These
Waves
Purple
A voyage of violins
&
Eighth notes
On Purple Street
These
The
Sails
Brave in the night
- -
Purple
- -
&
Dark

a perfect day for the poet...

It isn't 5 yet
&
That perfect orange sun
Is
Up
On the African tree
&
The bay
Most windows on the hill are still
Empty
But
The crows are purple
&
Iron blue
A perfect day for the poet
Who
Touches paint to the page
Turquoise
Peach
Blush
Lilac
Pink
&
Old pictures from California

phlox lubec...

a million stars mixed...

Phlox
The great Kansas City saxophone players
The notes the dream
The colors
A million stars mixed
Lilac orange
Blue
Blue
&
Blue

the tango...

A gull squawks
Two crows on a dance
Land
A horn blows
A bell brushes a waltz
- -
Then,
The tango

in the calm...

1.

Foghorns
Beads of dew on the front porch screen
&
Beads of sun
Coming
Up
On the Earth
& the angel dancers there;
The
Foghorns
Play
On
- -
& the cat is listening

2.

The Bar Harbor Bells are quiet
Beige black peach & grape
Looking
Like
Great
Picasso's
Hanging
In
The
Calm
Green eye blue eye
Hair a fuss
- -
On the apricot wall

3.

Now a rustle
The rosa ragusa nods
Motions
Notions
Of
Flower & chime
The screen's rippling dry
&
Faraway horns play to the leaves
The gulls
The wind & the sea
- -
Calm
Like the cat

4.

I paint like Matisse today
A purple woman
Her handbag decorated
Paris
France
A flower pot of flowers
&
A cutting board
Sliced oranges
& song
Matisse's
Calm
So
The cat & me

a lone poppy...

A lone poppy
Orange
Near the Freedom Bridge
Glassy water flowing beneath
Light
Across
The treetops & the building tops
&
The
Sun
Sang
Zinnia Blue