REMEMBERING THE GREAT JOHN TRANTER ~

 

J O H N    T R A N T E R

GET BACK THE BEATLES ~

 

THE      

B E A T L E S

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI ~

 

R E A D    M E

HARRY BELAFONTE ~

 

Jacob Harris/Associated Press

H A R R Y     B E L A F O N T E

1927 ~ 2023

STEEPLEJACK~

 

JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON (ON PIANO) ~

 

STEVE ABBOTT ~

S T E V E    A B B O T T

S T E V E    A B B O T T

MOBY GRAPE ~

 

R E A D     M E

AUTOPORTRAIT ( JESSE BALL ) ~

R E A D     M E

DEVIN JOHNSTON ~

 

Little Egypt

Counterclockwise

a vulture circles

the point of emptiness

rising above a rotting corpse

once a deer

diluted with distance

until it smells of musk

while at the foot

of a river bluff

in underbrush

a brown thrasher

gets off with the work

of flipping hickory hulls

for the flutter of insect life

as a solicitor fossicks

among old files

in uncontested solitude

the long sifting

of a legal process

drop it drop it

pick it up

pick it up

cover it up

stet

stet

_________________

Devin Johnston

Dragons

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023

SOUND MAN (GLYN JOHNS) ~

 

R E A D     M E

THE DAY'S MAIL ~

 

Clifford Burke

Clifford Burke

George Kalamaras

Jeffery Beam

John Martone

AHMAD JAMAL ~

 

1930 ~ 2023

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal

MILES DAVIS

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou ~

 

WALKER EVANS ~ MICHAEL LESY ~

 

READ    M E

THE FLY TRAP ~

 

R E A D    M E

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI ~

 

Figs

Figs are sweet, but don't last long.

They spoil fast in transit,

says the shopkeeper.

Like kisses, adds his wife,

a hunched old woman with bright eyes.

______________________

Adam Zagajewski

True Life

Translated by Clare Cavanagh

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023

A MOUNTAIN GOAT IS GREAT IN THE CLOSET ~

 

JONI MITCHELL / CALIFORNIA ~

 

(AIN'T THAT) GOOD NEWS ~