Saturday, December 29, 2012

and jazz and gold...

Snowballs
And
Beef fried rice
Ice
And
Winter

The years visiting the Cape Cod canal

And jazz and gold

Friday, December 28, 2012

Eubie Blake (1887-1983) quote...

"Be grateful for luck.  Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds.  And don't hate nobody." -Eubie Blake

Thursday, December 27, 2012

time lapse sea...

Taillights bright red on the rainy street
Wheels splashing the train whistle's song
Headlamps streak
In the time lapse morning
On the time lapse sea
Sailing

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

merry Christmas and the best 2013...

Trees and train whistles,
garland and gulls -
sailing home.

painting by Jean

Saturday, December 22, 2012

in 50 degrees...

In 50 degrees
On the trees
Just
A dance
Bird
And
Branch berry and the last leaf falling
Venetian pigeons
Rain
And
Splash
The sailcloth curtain on the hallway door
A Paris cafe
Hemingway

Charlie Shavers! Charlie Shavers!

charlie shavers trumpet man (1920-1971)...


Friday, December 21, 2012

miles to go the painting...


Thursday, December 20, 2012

leRoy neiman (1921-2012)...


all a yes...

Beautiful saxophone player in New York City
On a LeRoy Neiman poster
The street 52nd Street paint and jazz and print
Bird
All
On orange and brown paper
Splashed with gold the Onyx the night
All a Yes

Beautiful girl in Paris
On a
Paris Poster
Orange and brown paper
Paint and river and music
Dexter Gordon the Cafe the night
All a Yes

Charlie Shavers! Charlie Shavers!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

trees and train whistles...

Trees and train whistles,
garland and gulls -
sailing home.

eubie blake (1887-1983)...


Tuesday, December 11, 2012

charles 'buddy' bolden, cornetist (1877-1931)...


old walls...

New poetry
The old walls
Paintings
And
Ribbon
Matisse Monet
Manet
Buddy Bolden say
Old walls

Hemingway

Ripples in a river
Going by

Monday, December 10, 2012

flying at the ell redux...

Flying at the ell
Tea in the evening before the night
A perfect formation
A perfect flight
&
Trumpets there
Pianos & fruit bread too
Flying at the ell

Miles to go

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Dave Brubeck...





"It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me."
-Dave Brubeck

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

jazz in paris...






Jazz in Paris

a broken tear in the Picasso tree -

inexorably.

ferlinghetti...


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

when california was young...

The warmth of the early light
Coffee
And
Jam
And a starched white blouse
,
Mingus plays piano in California
When California was young

mingus plays piano...


quite jazz...

Quite jazz
Lester Young and Billie Holiday
Bird trains flyin'
Perfectly
At the Cellar Stairs
Planes and Tranes
Miles and Miles
Quite perfectly jazz
To
Go

prez and lady day...


Friday, November 23, 2012

black coffee...

That early sun on the street this morning
All sides of the solid line and the hill
Black coffee
And the early train whistle familiar again
But
No hanging blue painter's tape in the bay breeze
At the Nickelodeon Shore
Until February and April and June

Saturday, November 17, 2012

in the bay morning...

The sun
There
On the rosa berries
Red and lush
And the breath of seabirds
On them
Blue pennants hang in the sky,
Fluttering
Crows everywhere
In the bay morning
Washed in light and sea
And contentment

fast little horse...





The fast little horse dreams
Of sails on a stream

Write and
Right and
Song

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

night...





Night
On the bay
A tree -
Gold, purple, some orange in the sky

The Old Wind sings

And talks all night long

Sipping tea

Thursday, November 8, 2012

a daisy...

Paint
The moon night
Sun drops
Pearl beads of the rain and the stars
A daisy

And
Write

Here

Sunday, November 4, 2012

november sky...










wired -
november sky
tonight

Saturday, November 3, 2012

chris crittenden poet...


steven tyler, friday, november 2...


Sunday, October 28, 2012

no updraft...

The poet's road
Mist, quiet air
Flowers do not move
A few birds flying

A gauze curtain motionless
In a hallway,
On a roof a crow telling
Gulls and people,
Not a breath

No updraft.

Monday, October 22, 2012

love by lantern shine...


Sunday, October 21, 2012

karen mal...


of good...

Meadow birds and ocean flowers
Speaking here and the salt girl
Over the breakwater
Of good.

a painting...


a pencil sketch 10-19...


Saturday, October 20, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

sweetest dawns...

Sweetest dawns & sunsets coming around the corner
Up Johnson
Around the bend
Up Monument
Into the Marula tree over McGonigal's house
It is October
It is autumn

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

dave zinno bass...


Monday, October 1, 2012

lowell...

Lowell
Streets
Ghosts in the barrooms
&
Sandwich shops

Cobblestone rooms
Leafy
Solitude

&
Dawn
On the music
On the beat

Sunday, September 23, 2012

lucky thompson (1924-2005)...

Saturday, September 22, 2012

a motionless sky &...

A chair
A porch
A motionless sky &
Flowers in pots
On bushes
&
On the marquee
:
Closed

Click
!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

dory on the narrows oil by jean d...

Monday, September 17, 2012

a picasso sea...

Sunsets are coming around,
warm colors, cool sky,
a Picasso sea.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

a blue sea...

I remember the day
A blue sea
Happy
&
Tried

Rosie's

All
In my black & white movie

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

call to us (redux)...

Scattered psalms
Trinkets
&
Dust
Hearts & troves
The winds blow danger on the world
Then
&
Now
& for a moment we hold each other
Then
&
Now
,
But for a moment - just
.
Now
Doves & geese crows & hawks
;
Call to us

Sunday, September 9, 2012

margret...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

songs...

The rain,
a faraway foghorn -
songs.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

september morning...

September morning
The quiet water sailcloths flat
Flutter of blue tape on the Nickelodeon windows
Shadows
Under the eaves
Across the lobby door
Pink
Marquee
Will Scarlett Green posts & trim
The city is awake
&
Back to work
;
In my black & white movie
,
I paint today

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012)

Beautiful sun this morning
A crow flies by the starfish on the window
A geranium looks up
Orange flowers too
Caws
Percolating
Coffee
A picture on the front page
;
Last night the moon grew older

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Friday, August 10, 2012

thelonious monk...









Playfully
The meadow sways
&
Little hammers pound
,
Beats
;
Monk innovates

Friday, August 3, 2012

200,000th, August 2, 2012...

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

blue woods jean d...

Sunday, July 29, 2012

2 boats one...

2 boats two...

2 boats three...

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

w. quoddy...

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

knott house jean d...

boat & light pat fry...

donna...

another hunter...

Monday, July 23, 2012

no sketches no brews the sketch...

no sketches no brews...

There are no geraniums this morning
Jazz concerts
Waterfronts or wishing
Pianos or trumpets
No time
No keeping time
No sketches
No brews

Miles is gone
*
My friend, Jack, thinking about Miles
*
In a dream last night <>

Sunday, July 22, 2012

blue yoga...

Friday, July 20, 2012

karen...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

wonderful haiku by lucijane, a friend...

Petals of glowing fire
Beneath a soft light moon.
Relativity.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

margret...

Friday, July 13, 2012

liberty point...

pat fry painting liberty point...

painting...

liberty point acrylic by pat fry...

Saturday, July 7, 2012

poem for island painting...

That orange night
Amber wing
Sunset
&
The end of spring
&
With just a tiny moon in the sky
Fly

Friday, July 6, 2012

jean island painting oil...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

a crow landed...

A crow landed
Strutting
On the movie house &
Flew away

Amid the pink & Will Scarlet green
Paint

& there
On the marquee
Just above the rosa rugosa & geraniums
&
A rusted pot
:
Troubadour
!

freedom...

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." -Hunter S. Thompson

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

hst reduxes...

houses...

Houses
Blocks of color across the bay
White
Orange
Gold in the sun
Paper
Cloth
Bright & sail
In the morning
In a house
To
Nowhere

Sunday, June 3, 2012

it's jazz...