Friday, August 4, 2017

S.B.T. 431


By stroke of luck,  which a day ago I declared a life half-full of, Bernard Herrmann showed up. There he appeared between trees, with his dog, sauntering down a shady lane, both paused half-turned staring with stock-still camera eyes. During this last week I ‘d sensed something was coming, a slowly amping up vague feeling that disquietude was pending, uncertainty of, like, not-a-clue.

though, in anticipation, spying about, a low belly panther creeping under lush canopies in full daylight trying to peek at you my prey from behind the tall grasses and jungle trees near the shore. 
yeah, noticing the illumination of certain  seemingly domran, modnar, and random, chances given in correspondence to previously spoken word(s. 
that’s how it works, so ask for it, politely, at first.

So here he is, Bernard and Twi the dog, kindly and gladly championing multimedia mewzic, all at once several stories high on the street where you live. Unbelievable. At first anyway, but now quite for sure believable - um, let’s say, it’s “there”.  We were engaging in half-serious plans about a partnership in the offing as long as no offence could be taken or offered by any others in the league.  Off the fence, he’s often sitting around here somewhere.




Monday, June 19, 2017

S.B.T. 430

wild possums fight



in the middle of the night
dogwood spines tingle and shake
the grasses bend, the stars spin
shrieks splatter the stillness
sharp pellets
and echoing howls

“did you hear them?” my neighbor asks in the morning,
new shadows made in the days sunlight
patch a pattern over his face
 like a melody
in a minor key

the furies subside, leaving
a wordless question
a silent answer

young helen keller 
played by Patty Duke
throwing food screaming
pounding the table
then one day a word
penetrates the dark
giving a form where only
infinite puzzlement came before
natural developments
ferns and fibonaccios
and the skeining of
silk threads





Wednesday, March 8, 2017

S.B.T. 429


poem off the grid


fie   it says
  scope
and 
lo gong\\\\\ \ \ \
“to heap 31”
diagonal 
lee

yes
vaguely skennedy
sh…fife
no pie
silly con valet 
epic 
market 
figure

love lies 
haute tell in laos
to the left
nothing else 
but a fffew lonely F’s
stranded
and this guy 
lenny rockbotham

whisky autopilot



Tuesday, February 7, 2017

S.B.T. 428

Ned Rorem




_________**_________ in a tunnel - a natural state - if i keep walking at least i get onward. it was constructed for empaths to be able to get around town without a barrage. for air there are 3 holes every 3 1/2 feet, arched over the headway. enough natural light comes through to give it a copper glow. chiaroscuro otherwise. walking along from the park to C’est La Vie cafe for french roast thinking this isnt truly a great place even if it’s less dangerous. i mean, you’re walking along the tunnel and some of the random thoughts that find their way through those holes are doozies. i mean they're concentrated, they hitcha like a paint ball. just when i thought, ah finally i’m free. rule: freedom respite required but i’d rather not go on the surface, up there i’d be waiting at the crosswalk, waving down a cab, watching bags swaying. stormy. but i do miss noticing the shapes of things. i mean there is only one shape down here: tubular. it’s big enough for a motor scooter but they have to be electric according to regulation, people do ride bikes but it’s kind of rude the way they do it, sneaking up, zooming past, laughing too much. a walkers nightmare. yes empaths can be rude. it’s natural under the circumstances.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

S.B.T. 427

this “young” man, his posture centered around a thick cylindrical neck, which he thrusts forward like a dog would, offering the jugular to one he trusts, is a soul after all, seeing things his, or it’s way (as it is possible that the core has no duplicities) and you can tell by the glint of his eye that he is onto something BIG. that is, he KNOWS it, he FEELS it, it is his THING. bless him in all his savvy coolness. Max Wolf.


Tuesday, December 6, 2016

S.B.T. 426

cowboy soul


the lasso is His will, the bronco is yours
if the two come together you have a fine horse


     

tom johnson's pigs

Thursday, November 24, 2016

S.B.T. 425



Elliott Smith - 
I don't think I'm ever gonna figure it out