is there a word for
wind beats grass on the hillside
clouds shadow granites
how the light, how your smile
fades imperceptibly ?
Image: Jean Lorraine, New South Wales, Australia, 1940, by Max Dupain, c/- State Library of NSW on Flickr .
And for music this morning, here’s sitar virtuoso Jasdeep Singh Degun with Anomaly (YouTubers )
another sunrise
thermonuclear climbing
from restive waters
so much better on my phone
sharpened tidied swipe right
Image: by Bob Richards c/- Negative Space (slightly tweaked)
and for music this morning, American guitarists William Tyler and Marissa Anderson bring you Lost Futures (Youtubers)
the poetry books sulky on my table still unread. still ! their golden lines impatient my lover calls from our bedroom
Image: by jean wimmerlin on Unsplash. In the Ghost Town of Kolmanskop, Namibia
And for music today, some jazz from Japanese pianist Ryo Fukui. Here’s his album A Letter from Slowboat (YouTubers here). Slowboat was the name of the jazz club Fukui ran in Sapporo.
domestic panther
guarding corners and cupboards
while I sleep
awake at 3am
I listen for you still
Image: On guard. We said goodbye to our old cat this week.
And here’s something beautiful from Clara Schumann: Evening party in Venice (YouTubers, a different choir here)
enormous moon rising over the rooftops a yellow hibiscus spills over your fence — this melancholy light
Image: A neighbour’s bloom in artificial moonlight.
And for music today, here’s French ondist Christine Ott with Chimeres (pour ondes Martenot). (Youtubers here’s the album) An Ondes Martenot is an early (1928) electronic instrument and a player of this weirdness is an ‘ondist’.
today you’re wearing those sunglasses I retrieved from the ocean floor coralline rims, deep green glass sea flowers our corridor
Image: Diver entering the ocean wearing an experimental diving suit, 1934 c/- State Library of NSW on Flickr
And in keeping with today’s marine theme, here’s local indie guitar guy and shirt-refuser John Butler with Ocean (& tubers it’s here)
for Megan & Guy
i found you luminous on a shelf over rows of unseasoned woks 100-year-old eggs, cellophane pungency and coriander still wet from the fields wrapped in the Chinese Daily.Continue reading
as i pass the grove
in my garden dark
alien weeds
rustle
their swollen pods
seeds blowing like snow
Image: c/- Wikimedia Commons
Today’s musical offering is Australian composer Anne Cawrse with three Songs Without Words (YouTubers start with Lied)
after a night out
upright morning finds the moon
in cream and mottle
unsteady
she stops to lean
her head on a power pole
Image: Japanese photographer Ikko Narahara with Negligee from 1962 c/- Are.na. Last night was the May full moon (named the ‘flower moon’ in the northern hemisphere – as everything’s blooming there); so no-one slept in our house.
From my favourite Australian jazz trio The Necks here’s Open (sorry Spotifiers, I couldn’t find this for you but it’s such a fabulous album, you’ll want to purchase a copy of your own).
it was grey all day
it was raining
and it was going to rain
— mandarins in a red bowl
on a long grey table
Image: a domestic scene today. The first three lines are adapted from Wallace Stevens’ 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. His lines kept circulating today as the drizzle stopped and started and then…
Today’s musical offering, something upbeat: American funkster, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Shuggie Otis. Here’s his Best of album (YouTubers) – and on a day like this what are you going to start with but Rainy Day (unless of course it’s not raining in your part of the world).
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