sketching...

Under a beaded lamp -
Sketching
the fall & the quiet

dave mckenna pencil sketch...

concords & pegasuses...

Breathe like the leaves this morning
Cool
You know you played
The game
The song
Chart rooms & plaza bars
Concords
&
Pegasuses
All
Breathe easy now
Breathe like the leaves this morning
Cool

*for jazz pianist Dave McKenna died Saturday, October 18; he was 78.

blue savannah...

Under the blue sign -
Two antelopes
enter the savannah

the capton's sea cape...

The Capton's
Sea cape
Salted & torn above the beach
Worn rooms tacked on
Worn decking tacked on
All around
& she looking out
& breezes & moons & flowers watching too
The rose petals scattering away
Over the paths & over the hills
& they
Brushed her face
- -
& she felt it

october morning...

The quiet music
Of the furnace on
The wave of a curtain over a duct
The
Rubbish
Is
Out
- - By
- - The
- - Street

a foggy day...

At the far end of the long low table
A clean ashtray holding paper clips & rubber bands
No smoking in the piano room
A foggy day
In the wood box
Wood
For the fireplace's white washed brick
&
Driftwood
Not to burn
A foggy day
In a glass case a square rigger
Ship O' War
In a vase tall beige fans dried from the riverside
Next to the great carved heron
Peering into the fireplace
A foggy day
Up the Paris street
Umbrellas & easels flowers & gin pouts & creams
In the painting hanging on the wall
A foggy day
In the piano room