the haul net beached at last sea mullet hundreds arch their backs drowning in sunlight, in air fishers’ delight
Image: Netting Mullet by Indigenous artist Steven Russell, c/- Wollongong Art Gallery.
Some commercial fishers on the beach this morning: rowboats, Toyota Land Cruisers and gumboots and much yelling.
And today’s musical offering, here’s some joy from Hindustani artist Anandi Bhattacharya with Joys Abound (youtubers). Start anywhere, maybe Maya’s Dream.
this gale scudding euphony in drink tin timpani fallen fruit donging palm frond door slamming yes yes hurry yes — dissonant air(s)
Image: Katsushika Hokusai, A sudden gust of wind from the 36 views of Mt Fuji series (it’s actually called View 18, Ejiri in Suruga Province) c. 1830.
A single big-breath tanka for you. And linked to Dverse, the poets pub – where Bjorn is hosting some dissonance.
And for music this morning, Sufi Afghani music from the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group. (YouTubers) – Maybe start with Oh Desolate Flame
“The group have been performing for more than thirty years and is one of the most highly regarded qawwali groups in Afghanistan. Featuring an array of instruments rarely heard outside their homeland, the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group are part of a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years. Banned from performing under the Taliban reign, these musicians now publicly reunite to present the healing and spiritual power of qawwali music to Afghanistan and the world.”
(This album from 2013, I don’t know the status of the group since the Taliban regime was reinstated in Afghanistan in 2021)
during lockdown I made marmalade from windfall mandarins the tree is laden again how relentless this flight
It’s the first winter storm as I write, and this is playing in the background (album link) (something similar from YouTube). May Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden ease your weather wherever you are this morning…
toressian — uk-uk little crow — high hoarse nark-nark 'straylian raven — aah-aaah forest — korr-korr carries far and little — kar-kar
Image: Crow and Willow Tree, Kawanabe Kyosai, November 1887, public domain, c/- Metropolitan Museum, NY.
A found tanka (kind of) from The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds by Peter, Pat and Raoul Slater, 2nd edition, 2009 p. 352. Conveniently tanka-wise, Australia has five native corvids, two crows and three ravens.
And for your amusement here’s two wailing ravens
clay retains months of rain surge like a sea underfoot plush round our ankles we jesus-walk on meadows tractors down to axles
Image: Sea of grass, Lake Illawarra
And this morning’s musical offering is some Portuguese fado with Mariza’s 2006 album Transparente (YouTubers)
what to write? what to write? dawn, and in rushes poem enunciates ocean eucalypt bird factory traffic and so on...
Image: The muses, Emmy Towsey (Taussig) and Evelyn Ippen, Bodenwieser, Ballet in Centennial Park, Sydney, c.1939, photo Max Dupain c/- State Library of NSW on Flickr. I know, not a strict tanka today.
And for music today here’s The Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic with Masquerade. The whole album is a lush delicious bath. Released in 2018, the album features The Carpenters’ original vocal and instrumental tracks accompanied by new orchestral arrangements by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Richard Carpenter produced, arranged and conducted. (Youtubers: Masquerade, Album)
the drone shot shows
how I was wrong —
actually i live on
a branch, leaf, a thaw of frost
a paper boat spiralling
Image: ESA satellite image of Western Australian wheatbelt (detail). After James Galvin.
Some poetic licence today. Actually, I live and work on un-ceded Aboriginal land. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this work was created — the Wodi Wodi people who are the Aboriginal custodians of the Illawarra — and pay my respects to Elders past and present.
This morning’s musical offering some Canadian country twang from Kacy and Clayton with The Siren’s Song (YouTubers).
neon supermarket — mums among avocados cabbages brilliant packs out back lobstermen clack carapaces on the glass
Image: Young girl with cabbage, Firmin Baes (1874 -1943) c/- Wikimedia. After Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California, 1955
And this morning, some guitar for you from Spanish composer Antón García Abril (1933 – 2021) played by Francisco Bernier (maybe start with track 2 Evocaciones) (YouTubers).
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 )
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