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Performing this poem Saturday, November 21 at Shell Dance Nursery in Pacifica with Mr. Tom Poole on trumpet. 2-4 p.m. FREE. Also performing with Daniel Swetlik on guitar and Tom a few original songs written by Daniel Swetlik and Maurine Killough. Hope to see you there!
this is an ekphrastic poem written for Sarah Curtiss‘ art pictured below
listen to the audio clip as you read the poem
jazz, you are a mystery to me
curly notes cue up to fugues on acid
sprightly tuned colors ignite velvet fur juxtaposed with electric fusion
noodle highways drive sound from a high speed chase
to the color of cool, green avocado
striped trumpets pop like stars in your xylophone hair
jester music, you are two faced
you climb me from your creamy lips, just to nudge me to the suicide drop of a sky scraper
jazz shaman, mystery witch, you pull me deep into your fractals
lose me in your saxophone eyes
then hang on your obtuse hooks my ears
waiting to be rescued in a wave of piano or left to drown in a Minor C
mysterious jazz, you shun convention
you spark infused parody
soothe, then confuse and take hostage our sensibilities of rhythm
and into the smoky night
of slippery hot pepper butter-love
you stand guard over the rebellious realm of
the undefinable
keeping the lock safe from the key
its mystery
Here is a re-print of far enough…singer/songwriter/actor extraordinaire, Thomas Burks, has written music to this poem, bringing it to new height. I am honored.
santa ana winds you make me happy
palm trees flapping
great room sky
release my trappings
i sit in the wings that wait
alone in this moment
ready for the soft blanket
that will wrap me in something New
something Clean
fly me so far away
far enough to see
the best image of myself
far enough
to forget myself
so i can remember
who i can be