This Friday...

 

 

On the turntable:  Junior Wells, "Calling All Blues"

 

(untitled)

 

Atop the solar panels

That shadow a small pond,

Cormorant dries its wings. 

On the turntable:  Count Basie Orchestra, "Basie Meets Bond"

(untitled)

 

Changes; 

Petals fall

In delicate symmetry,

In a garden

Not my own. 

 

 On the turntable:  The Hollies, "Greatest Hits...Live!"  

On the nighttable:  Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express"

Nakasendo Waypoints #104

 

 

                                         Northern winds

                                  Blow away the faint cries

                              Of the last insects of summer

 

On the turntable: Bob Dylan, "Dancing in the Dark"

Jazz & The Spoken Word, set two

 

 

With the Joshua Breakstone group, Bonds Rosary, July 01, 2022

 

On the turntable: Rolling Stones,  "Beggars Banquet"

Jazz & The Spoken Word, set one

 

  

With the Joshua Breakstone group, Bonds Rosary, July 1, 2022

 

On the turntable: Rahsaan Roland Kirk,  "Here Comes the Whistleman"

 

Jazz & The Spoken Word II

Jazz & The Spoken Word returns to Kyoto on July 1st. My own words (and the Rexroth intro) last time...

https://www.writersinkyoto.com/2022/06/jazz-and-the-spoken-word/

 

On the turntable:  Hasil Adkins, "Chicken Walk"

 

Poetry and Jazz revisited, set two

With the Joshua Breakstone group, Bonds Rosary, Dec. 10, 2021

 

On the turntable: Low, "Hey What"

 

Poetry and Jazz revisited, set one

With the Joshua Breakstone group, Bonds Rosary, Dec. 10, 2021

 

On the turntable: George Shearing Quintet - "When Lights Are Low" 

 

Poetry and Jazz...

  

This Friday...

 

 

On the turntable:  Paul Winter Consort, Crestone"

 

(untitled)

 

Wind on my cheeks,

Filling in spaces

On maps I once thought done.

 

 

On the turntable: Nick Drake, "Five Leaves Left"

 

(untitled)

Nothing growing  
In winter paddies 
But the shadows of running boys

  

On the turntable:  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis,  "White Lunar" 

(untitled)

 

Across a gentle canvas of

A soft winter sunset,

I spilled my ink.

 

 

On the turntable:  Grateful Dead, "1977-12-31, Winterland"

 

(untitled)

 

 

Double-helix of steam

Rises from my coffee,

DNA of the day ahead.

 

 

 

On the turntable: Grateful Dead, "1973-06-24 Portland Memorial Coliseum"

(untitled)

 

Upon an arboreal carpet

Drops listlessly drift.

Can it be snow?

 

 

On the turntable:  Grateful Dead, "1973-09-08 Nassau Coliseum"

(untitled)

 

                                   Shinadani’s Treasures

                             Lay scattered on the ground

                                      Crimson and gold.

On the turntable: Mudcrutch, "Mudcrutch " 

(untitled)

 

 

Crumbling forest canopy

Softens my footfalls;

 All under the Buddha’s stone gaze.

 

 

On the turntable:  Capsule, "Player" 

 

(untitled)

 

 

Beneath a slate gray sky,

Trees flaunt their colors 

As if in defiance.

Heaven. Earth. Man.

Towering ikebana,

In a trio of cedars

 

 

On the turntable: Grateful Dead, "1973-11-11Winterland"

 

(untitled)

Drinking beer

Alone on the grass

Is the highest barometer of freedom

On the turntable:  Mount Eerie, "Live in Copenhagen"

(untitled)

Sitting in the mountains,

Giving my life away

With every exhale.

***

Shidare-zakura laden with omikuji,

Sway in the the spring wind,

Like bridal trains.

***

Cold wind rattles the 

Bamboo like skeletons;

Whole sections twisted and fallen.

On the turntable:  Otis Span with Muddy Waters,"Live the Life"