midnight whisper

midnight whisper
25 & 26 february 2022

on the terrace
at midnight,
stars damp
in shine,
southern cross
on its sceptre,
a dog
barking,
______artillery,
crickets
rattling
the dark
awake,
______tanks,

sun
flowering
in buried

pockets

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A reading of the poem on the terrace is posted here below:

blackbird in paradise

blackbird in paradise
february 2022, riverside

blackbird in the paradise yard, as looked up to by Little Cat

lived on,
were the
locus ‘i’,
a blackbird
in paradise,
of nothing
more than
this tree
would i
be feathered
in need,
a summer
of leafy
branches
weighed to
grass with
plums, i jabbing
at their flesh,
fibred waters

magnetic

magnetic
14 february 2022

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Click on the link above to hear a reading of the poem.  The accompanying piano piece is  from the Études Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major, “Aeolian harp” by Chopin,  interpreted here by Daniil Trifonov at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, May 2011 in Tel Aviv.