Thursday, May 29, 2014

self in gray...


a pirate's day off...

Curio shoppes
Rag stores
Short White Blazer emporiums
&
&
Chocolate Rum Cake

A pirate's day off

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

two poems for Maya Angelou (1928 - May 28, 2014)...

maya... (written November 10, 2009)

Maya
Poet
There will always be springs
Again
Births
Your coral leaves speak to benches & seas
Colors on this canvas
Together the sun & the moon
&
Antelopes
&
Children
Sing to the animals & the coral leaves
Of
You
Maya Angelou <>

from where we go... (written today)

Tie up boats
A portrait of quiet
There
On a stand in the sun
In front of a sea
Blue
&
Wicker
Reels
&
Solitude
Indigo and spice rice and rockets
Walls
Walls
&
Plains
And seas from where we come and from where we go
Rain
&
Rockets
&
Stars <>

Monday, May 26, 2014

miles's way, 'miles davis way' between riverside drive & west end ave...



father and son...


crazy stars...

Crazy stars,
crossings
to our consciousness.

a gray breeze in from the meadow...

A gray breeze in from the meadow
The bay meadow
Gold finches now a hummingbird yesterday
In a quiet purplish sunset
A Modigliani woman
Matisse
Countertops
Tables
Oranges
And
Windows open to boats and sky
,
Way downeast
Where your good heart is

Sunday, May 25, 2014

a good cigar...


sitting on the big rock...

Sitting on the big rock
A block
By the big hotel
Looking on fish boxes orange men scurrying
Fitting out making to the sea
And the island meals of fish
Fingers
Blue cheese chicken batter and bread
And the sun and the wind
The salt
Of the poetry
Of the sea

Saturday, May 24, 2014

(this morning) page 107...

The sun is on the freshly mowed grass
The bay flat
And the Scotch pine speaking
Low
The sun goes behind a cloud
Glints and captures
;
Page 107

Friday, May 23, 2014

texture and dance...

Jazz songs
Books in a row in a corner on a table
Watching the poetry of Gunhouse Hill and Jim Morrison
And always
Avoiding tomfoolery
Either
In
Reading
Or
Writing

Texture and dance

Thursday, May 22, 2014

jazz singer kat gang, soon a painting...


(yesterday morning) water and sea...

A distant horn Miles playing
The
Silent
Water and sea
Just a gull
Just a tern
Plover
Improv at
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Bye Bye Blackbird
I Thought About You
Foghorn
Muted
Miles

Henry Red Allen

Cotton Tail

my tired pen writing...

My tired pen writing
Poetry and pictures
On cloth napkins

Such jazz!

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

and spring unturned...

Yellow lined papers
Notes
Are stacked
This choppy gray morning in May
Sun trying - will it stay ??
Late May
And spring unturned
And Monday nights at the Picasso Jazz Club
After Sundays and sixty minutes
Now Tuesday and book shopping
Play it again,
Again
When in a book shopping place,
Irrelevancy is in all things outside of it,
I know this
Fact

sketching a poem old picture...


Friday, May 16, 2014

fifteen minutes of cool...

In a cool breeze
Goldfinches, rosas clipped some green there
And a blue ceramic pot and cool green there
Surreal the cool
Mauve
And
Red
Blue caps in the bay
I will paint today
Or
Tomorrow
That is
The artist life
Fifteen minutes of cool

redux will taylor strings attached acrylic...


of jazz the poem...

Of jazz
Eyelashes and hands
A camera
Click
On the beach
A cliff walk and a violin
The ocean
In
Dance
And
Song

Of jazz
Of jazz

of jazz...


Wednesday, May 14, 2014

that eyelash moon lemon and blue...


Tuesday, May 13, 2014

it is a big place...

It is a big place
For flying finches
And all the frogs in the pond
A dozen birds this morning
And gold and sparrows
And the movie house alive in sunlight
Shadows of spires and great buildings
In the world
A very big place
More gold and sparrows
Lively
The planet is good heart
Amber and waves
Salt and creek

Good home

"i really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." -kurt vonnegut (1922-2007)...


Saturday, May 10, 2014

"sometimes words are just music themselves. like 'chicago' is a very musical sounding name." -tom waits


it seems...

The Saturday breeze on the movie house marquee
On the bay running to the shore
Picket fences
Gingerbread cakes
And it
Seems

Like
Yesterdays

Sarah Vaughan
Hollyday
And the
MJQ

It seems

Friday, May 9, 2014

riff...

Riff
Rocks of sunlight splashing on the bay
Boxcars
Harps cellos and congas
Ray Brown! Ray Brown!
Caribe
And desolate scapes
But jazz
The buffer
The peace 'on green dolphin street'
Blue

Variations on the theme
Robert Johnson

reprise robert johnson b. may 8...


Thursday, May 8, 2014

that championship season...


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

something good there...

Sketch in blue
This song
The
Evening
A
Clear sky many stars

Something good there

Coltrane

Clarisse,
Clarisse Album Cover

In Blue

Something good there
In Blue

sketch in blue...


Sunday, May 4, 2014

look at the fog over there...

Look at the fog over there
On Sunday
In this Scotch Pine tree
I see the breaks and the flower
Spurs and Saturday Night Live
And I see the autumn