An eloquent and charming look at your ability to write authentically about this, and many other subjects. And you created a very impactful image, allowing the staff and notes to function as the woman's spine. Wonderful simplicity in saying "Hello" in musical terms. Loved this one.
I syncopated along with you in floor-floor time, and hardly missed a beat, all in perfect rhyme.
My mother used to draw, on the sideline of the paper she was keeping track of a card score, beautiful profile line drawings like you have for this poem. Only you have filled errors out much more with a part of the body and color, like in the lips, to emphasize the strong points of your image. Reminded me very much of the very sexy, Mayan woman who was my graduate assistant from Belize.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
Régis 🙏🌸💕🐦🦋
Love ya!
Jane
My mother used to draw, on the sideline of the paper she was keeping track of a card score, beautiful profile line drawings like you have for this poem. Only you have filled errors out much more with a part of the body and color, like in the lips, to emphasize the strong points of your image. Reminded me very much of the very sexy, Mayan woman who was my graduate assistant from Belize.
Ron