June 2017
I am an odd sort of poet, and I know I don’t fit into much of any mold. I’m okay with that. However, I do love the quirky associations of ideas that can be sparked by pretty much anything in life, including paintings. One-off personal response poems are particularly fun to write, like this poem-comment on a delightful painting by Firestone Feinberg. My debut book of original poems and photographs, a clear day in october, is available direct from the publisher.
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"Salon with Pink Piano" - Firestone Feinberg
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the color of your songs what do you get from a blue guitar if not the blues in six-eight time heavy and slow in a minor key a minor key from a slow and heavy but very pink piano tuned to perfection, polished and poised to project a serpentine sonata sonata for serpent where bass clef crawls along the floor and treble spreads its trouble all across the couch cushions below watchful eyes eyes that watch below, above peace, yin-yang, saturn spinning primal parents pondering life and the metaphorical meaning of the three legs of a stool |
© 2017 Jim Lewis
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