Friday, April 24, 2015

earth day...

Earth Day
Today yesterday tomorrow the day before -

And it should be!

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

where the thunder too...

Thunder the distance
Breezy
Rainy bay

Tide ponds in the swell

Raindrops clung to the red trees

This quiet daylight
Roaring wheels
Waiting
The
Train
Whistle

Where
Everywhere the distance

Where the thunder too

It's jazz
That's all.

Monday, April 20, 2015

in my jazz sketchbook...


in my jazz sketchbook bruce cassaday...


in the beat and the twilight...

Two for the road
Two for the road show

Trombones the big sound
Miss Christy in the glow of the midnight sun

In the beat

Safe
And
Calm

As the bus makes the turn
To the next town
Indianapolis
Miiiiami!

In a blue blue whirl

And the twilight

In the beat.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

basquiat the poem:...

Basquiat the poem:
Train whistles there
The streets and newspapers
Canvases and lion hair
A panoply of color and verse
In every painting
In everywhere

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

the bird feeder is empty...

The tall trees on the ridge
And
The wide blinds in the window
The sun is coming through

The bird feeder is empty
I will buy food for them today
I heard them singing this morning

A friend heard frogs peeping last evening
Yes.
Oh!
A train whistle!
I must go.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

flutter spring...

Shadows of the picket fences
Warm in
The trees blowing lightly
The ribbon signs on the lampposts
Flutter
Spring
Flutter
Spring

And the smell of freshly fried donuts.

9bach...


ambling...

Calm the night
A schooner ambling along the Elizabeth Islands
A cove !
Ashore supper fire and storytelling
Rum and cheese chicken and sea
Spires of
Water
And
Smoke
The constellations
Sleep

Sleep on
To Cuttyhunk and further
Sandbars and sunburns Madras and orange blondes tomorrow

A travel back in time
In your youth.

winding the big horn passes and grain fields below...

I have a friend who likes trains too
Choo
Trestles high
Winding the Big Horn passes and grain fields below
She
In the sun, shades and screen
'Til moon and star and music
Quiet clacks on the tracks
East to New York City
Gats Villages Vanguards
Vivaldi and blues and Milo Hewes
The Waldorf straws and shoes
Choos
Toos.

jazzsong...


Thursday, April 9, 2015

the weather...

The train whistle down the street
Rumble of the furnace
The cars
Ramble
The book reads
Travels
And
Travails
Dripping from the paper lanterns
Dripping orange

billie holiday (april 7, 1915 - 1959)...


i thought...

I have written a thousand haiku
and got tired.

I thought.

if you're a beat poet...

If you're a beat poet ragged hair is good
Earring
And beard
Four Roses whiskey manischewitz and a good 99 cent merlot
Camels
And
Lucky Strikes
And beer of course
Funny looking cigarettes whoosh !
Craggly demeanors horn rimmed glasses button-down shirts
Stripes
On the shirts and on the road
A compendium
Of wide brimmed hats and six shooters
Big apples Mexico sunrises

Hell !
Fix the infrastructure will ya ?

If you're a beat poet

one brush...

That coffee!
A handful of acrylics
Peach rouge mauve chartreuse
The color of faces
Hands
A pout
A brush
Canvas and paper

One brush!

Rembrandt the greatest self-portrait painter of all time

I like Van Gogh though

in studio c...

Thinking about
Where it would be
Nice to be
Under a moon
Lemon in the sea

Under a sunset
Purple and pink

Singing with the bards sailors and bones

In Studio C

in the coffee morning...

Still, very still
In the coffee morning
Except

A piano playing Monk
Thelonious Monk

Donna Lee
Charlie Parker
And
Take 5

A morning of still, very still
In the coffee morning

just words to make a small painting...

Brushes of words
On
Light
Light gold paper
Sundance
And Katharine Ross
In
Sepia.