Saturday, December 31, 2016

Bob Dylan last painting 2016...


Tuesday, December 6, 2016

bad heart is not

try not bad heart
bad heart is not
never was with jazz
ask Mingus Kerouac
Dylan Parker and Jack
and Monk
poets painters
sailors
philosopher kings
Ferlinghetti and Jim Morrison and
Van Gogh
bad heart is not
not Matisse
and not the troubadours too
coffee percolates biographical
while Hawking strives
ahhhha
they keep good heart.

Monday, November 21, 2016

jfk underpaint, discarded...


Saturday, November 5, 2016

shades of miles...


Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Ted Casher plays jazz...


Sunday, October 2, 2016

'weirs' oil by jean deVeber...


Tuesday, September 27, 2016

chet baker blue...


Friday, September 23, 2016

moon on Indian Lake...


Monday, June 27, 2016

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

pensive poet...


after the storm...

sun drops from a tree
a quiet cool
like Mingus on piano
or breezes in the sail
coming out of a cove
to open ocean
and those sun drops from a tree
reading Ferlinghetti
on the road to Cuttyhunk
on the sea nineteen past.

Monday, June 20, 2016

a small poem...

a small poem
thinking of
a Modigliani
Matisse Van Gogh
the canvases
and
musicians
and
poets
the better hearts of the world
paint
and
soul,
deep heart.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

the train far

the train far
winds and cool breezes blowing the leaves
branches idling then busting
more
tires road tracks paths ocean lanes
to Boston song
n
glow
Kerouac on the road with the poets
scorned then Elvis too
minimized today not Elvis though or Thoreau
but Kerouac and the poets giants
n
show
in copper color silos filled in life
and far.

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Muhammad Ali...

courage mortal
a word words flutter
a smile
flick stick the shuffle
a hit
the game mortal
humanity mortal
injustices hatred destruction
all mortal
but those championship rounds
the greatest

the eyes smile alive kind heart
the truth immortal.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Friday, June 3, 2016

treasure n soul...

mornings
everything new
youth again in heart
white clouds
     pure
n
flow
Ellington song treasure
n
soul

indigo blue.

Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990)...


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

miles and trains

in looking
on a blank canvas
colors
white
beige pink and lemonade
flowing
purple and blue
growing themes

miles
and
trains.

flowing sands...

dripping waving red maple leaves
branches sway
in a fine rain
the night over
breaking light since
traffic and soul in the song
in the song
night
flowing sands
to here
dripping waving red maples
and light breaking.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Duke Ellington (1899-1974)...




Miles Davis (1926-1991)...


John Coltrane (1926-1967)...


Monday, May 16, 2016

poem

poem
red maples leaves out rippling
now
in a cool late day breeze
cloudy
tires slapping the street infrequently
Sunday
trying to be quiet

not so quiet though.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

moments...

moments
flashbacks
grainy pieces of black and white film
whap whap whap
the flickering light
newsreels and
phones ringing, hopes whirring
all there
stories
with popcorn in the balcony.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Billie Holiday (1915-1959)...


Thursday, April 28, 2016

Prince (1958-2016)...


Saturday, April 2, 2016

the perfect music...

The perfect music -
poetry n
calm.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

new bird...


Monday, February 22, 2016

swan painting...


Thursday, February 11, 2016

book jacket photo by frank van riper...


winter...


Wednesday, February 10, 2016

inaugural poet richard blanco


Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Friday, January 22, 2016

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)...


Thursday, January 21, 2016

strings attached...


Sunday, January 17, 2016

Sinatra acrylic hommage to Bruni...