30 January 2010

Cloudless sky tonight.
Full moon's cold light freezes time.
Dawn a distant hope.

30 January 2010

25 January 2010

The old snow has melted
Just in time for the new snow
To begin falling

25 January 2010

22 January 2010

Ice beneath my feet
As I slide across the path.
I’m going nowhere.

22 January 2010

21 January 2010

I'm listening to the Steve Kuhn Trio (the CD is Mostly Coltrane) last night, and I'm struck by a song that I don't think I'd ever heard before buying this CD, "Jimmy's Mode." [It's on a posthumous Coltrane release, Stellar Regions (1995), which I don't have. But which I think I'll have to buy.] On this version, Joe Lovano is playing tenor, and his performance is exquisite; the rest of the group might as well not be there. Shortly before the song begins, I turn out the lights, getting ready to head off to sleep. But the music keeps me in my seat.

Minor key. Tenor sax
Plays a somber melody.
I sit in darkness.

21 January 2010

19 January 2010

Tonight, memories
Surround me, as if the ones
I love were still here.

19 January 2010

14 January 2010

Piles of snow turning
Black. Gutters filled with snow melt.
January thaw.

14 January 2010

11 January 2010

The holidays? Over.
Reality sets in now.
Going back to work.

11 January 2010