The road out here is so flat
You can smell the ocean breeze
Blowing across the Texas expanse
In this wide open stretch of earth
With windows down and radio up
Tag Archives: Music
Poem: Girl Playing Music in the Alley
The melancholy chords
Of a lone guitar echo
Down an empty corridor
Strummed by a girl sitting
On an old stoop surrounded
By the garbage of the street
Playing beautiful sadness
Short Story: Interlude to a Departure
“The fire escape is rusty,” Henry said.
“It always had been since we started sitting out here at age thirteen,” Jess responded.
“Five years on, other things have changed. The rising sun is threatening to take you. You’ll go, I’ll never see you again.”
“I won’t forget you.”
“Is what they always say.”
Poem: 4’33”
The click of a light
Hard cover scraping
Against a shelf
And other books
Creaking of the spine
As it is opening
Rustling of paper
Movement of pencils
In a wire mesh case
Photography: Kurt Cobain Memorial Park in Aberdeen, WA
Kurt Cobain Memorial in Aberdeen Washington
Poem: Music
Fingers flitting on
Like birds soaring on the air
Producing music
Poem: Misses Jones
In a oceanside cafe Maria sits alone
Bare foot tapping time to the band
Playing flamenco music on stage
All the boys are calling to her
To show some of that Spanish dancing
Poem: The Crossroads
Down in the Mississippi delta
The trees weep on the wind
Momma’s tell their babies
They’re weeping for souls
Of those who lived in sin
The ramblers and wanders
Who were lost not looking to be found
Traveling to the ends of the earth
Found themselves discovered
At a four point crossroads
Poem: Guitar Strings
As her fingers walk along the strings
Her hand picking at them at time
She tries to catch the vibration
Of the universe in her strumming
Riding a wave emotion straight through
The defenses of those listening
Poem: Blues Man
His dark and weathered skin
Might be older than the street itself
Deep set eyes that have watched
As ages have come and gone
Fingers swollen with arthritis
Yet they move like a young man’s
When dancing along brass valves
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