Monday, June 30, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
portraits...
Portraits
Trying to visualize how Henry Isaacs would paint them
Kat Gang Anita O'Day Brigitte Zarie
Billie Holiday, and
Mingus and Monk and Lester Young
On islands
Under
Light and sky
Steve McQueen and Chet Baker too
The Jazz Players
Trying to visualize how Henry Isaacs would paint them
Kat Gang Anita O'Day Brigitte Zarie
Billie Holiday, and
Mingus and Monk and Lester Young
On islands
Under
Light and sky
Steve McQueen and Chet Baker too
The Jazz Players
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
sun carpets...
Only
Chimes in the wind
The sound and the breeze
And
Rings
Of
Bamboo
Sun carpets
And
Solitude
Duke Ellington wrote the song
Chimes in the wind
The sound and the breeze
And
Rings
Of
Bamboo
Sun carpets
And
Solitude
Duke Ellington wrote the song
Friday, June 20, 2014
sun time...
Sun time
A glint on the hummingbird feeder
Geraniums and cactus bathed
Sun time
A few minutes writing in it
And
Waiting
For the music to appear
Sun time
*written yesterday.
A glint on the hummingbird feeder
Geraniums and cactus bathed
Sun time
A few minutes writing in it
And
Waiting
For the music to appear
Sun time
*written yesterday.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
the lilac cafe...
The Lilac Café blues and
Lavender
By the sea
The
Players
Miami The Keys Sydney
Savannah Eyes Savannah
Max Roach
Riffing
And
Jamming at The Lilac Café
Blues and
Lavender
By the sea
Luscious
By the sea
Not The Rose Club at The Plaza
But
The Lilac Café
10 cent beer
99 cent merlot
And
Bebop
1959
The dawn cascading
Lavender
By the sea
The
Players
Miami The Keys Sydney
Savannah Eyes Savannah
Max Roach
Riffing
And
Jamming at The Lilac Café
Blues and
Lavender
By the sea
Luscious
By the sea
Not The Rose Club at The Plaza
But
The Lilac Café
10 cent beer
99 cent merlot
And
Bebop
1959
The dawn cascading
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
color of poppy...
In red
In orange
Color of poppy
Songs of the maids
The sea
The rocks
Singing
Singing
Traveling
Traveling
In their minds
In orange
Color of poppy
Songs of the maids
The sea
The rocks
Singing
Singing
Traveling
Traveling
In their minds
Sunday, June 15, 2014
a sweet taste...
The salt
A sweet taste
Red flowers a breeze
Poppies
Silver sided moon last night
Perfectly
A birdland painting
A sea
Perfectly
Blues
Perfectly
Jazz
And
A
Flamingo say
*written yesterday.
A sweet taste
Red flowers a breeze
Poppies
Silver sided moon last night
Perfectly
A birdland painting
A sea
Perfectly
Blues
Perfectly
Jazz
And
A
Flamingo say
*written yesterday.
Friday, June 13, 2014
orange...
In discussion of orange with a poet
I described
Orange,
Orange in the door
Orange in the garden
I look out on the wavy wind
Blue sky now
Not
Seeing
Through the window
Maybe at sunset?
I described
Orange,
Orange in the door
Orange in the garden
I look out on the wavy wind
Blue sky now
Not
Seeing
Through the window
Maybe at sunset?
motionless...
In the rosas bushes
Motionless everything
The clouds
No clouds I can see
White light blue
The blue painter's tape motionless too
I hear birds but do not see them
I do now,
One
Sparrow
And oh now
Crows and gulls swooping
But
No motion
Not even locomotion
But there is a strutting seagull
On the roof peak of the movie house
Now
*written yesterday.
Motionless everything
The clouds
No clouds I can see
White light blue
The blue painter's tape motionless too
I hear birds but do not see them
I do now,
One
Sparrow
And oh now
Crows and gulls swooping
But
No motion
Not even locomotion
But there is a strutting seagull
On the roof peak of the movie house
Now
*written yesterday.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
at 7...
At 7
Sun
Crows
And still in the Scotch pine
Very still
The piano tuner is on her way
I'll paint today
Maybe not.
Sun
Crows
And still in the Scotch pine
Very still
The piano tuner is on her way
I'll paint today
Maybe not.
at 4...
At 4
Fogrise
Cloudrise
A rose pink in the clouds
A glint of light on the stovepipe next door
And
At 5
The movie house comes to life
Birds
And sunbreaks
And breezes
And
The geraniums are red
And the hummingbirds are blue
*written yesterday
Fogrise
Cloudrise
A rose pink in the clouds
A glint of light on the stovepipe next door
And
At 5
The movie house comes to life
Birds
And sunbreaks
And breezes
And
The geraniums are red
And the hummingbirds are blue
*written yesterday
Thursday, June 5, 2014
where blue...
Where blue
Where
In blue eyes
Blue
Moons
Blue flowered curtains there the windows where the boats are
And the blue snow is
And the pond where the lily pads float is
More
Blues
A brush of blue paint on her chin, green on her nose and eyes
Matisse's wife
A faded photograph of blue water in Buzzards Bay
And
And
A Kind of Blue Miles sketch
In
Spain,
Birth of the Cool
Blue
Blue streaks on the big fish
The Marlin
And
Old man
In Monk's midnight dance
Oh Thelonious
Blue notes
No notes
Oh man!
*inspired by Susan Melot's poem Bluescape
Where
In blue eyes
Blue
Moons
Blue flowered curtains there the windows where the boats are
And the blue snow is
And the pond where the lily pads float is
More
Blues
A brush of blue paint on her chin, green on her nose and eyes
Matisse's wife
A faded photograph of blue water in Buzzards Bay
And
And
A Kind of Blue Miles sketch
In
Spain,
Birth of the Cool
Blue
Blue streaks on the big fish
The Marlin
And
Old man
In Monk's midnight dance
Oh Thelonious
Blue notes
No notes
Oh man!
*inspired by Susan Melot's poem Bluescape
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
orange poem...
Orange in the door, orange in the garden, the sun on the driftwood,
The
Gates
&
Buddha
In bloom
In
Central Park Blue
Like the sea
*written June 3, 2014
The
Gates
&
Buddha
In bloom
In
Central Park Blue
Like the sea
*written June 3, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
and that far off horn fading...
Coffee
And that far off horn fading
And
Oh
And
Sun on the movie house marquee
Reading Chameleon and Clock and Bottle,
Painting Trio
And doing this
*written this morning.
And that far off horn fading
And
Oh
And
Sun on the movie house marquee
Reading Chameleon and Clock and Bottle,
Painting Trio
And doing this
*written this morning.
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