Tag: Art
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Wild Magic
Another old one from the early ’80s… Places it in the same time-window that I’m currently describing in my continuing memoir. Wild Magic I am the wild magicThe promise of oldIn order to articulateI must learn to be bold The entire universeWill dance to my tuneBut first – shed the cacconBehold the sun and moon…
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Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy
An old PBS performance from 1977, but one of my favorites; and better than any of the orchestral versions that I’ve heard (IMHO). Sarasate’s virtuosoity and arraging genius are featured in this, his take on Carmen. Perlman’s performance of Sarasate’s fiddle fireworks steadily intensify right to the very end.
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Annie – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 1 This is a slight backtrack on the timeline with Jubal. I met Anne P. in the winter of ‘77, 6 or 7 months after Lynn left. She was working for the OH State License Bureau that my dad was running out of his carpet store, The Big T. Yes, Dad retired…
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Black River Mystery
Black River Mystery down in the Black Riverfloodplain not far fromcattails and clumps ofriver-birch, snuggled inwith rag-weed, QueenAnne’s Lace and St. John’sWort sits a square patchof young five and sevenfrond-leaf plantings sixfeet high, approachingharvest strength – perhapsnext week where did they gobig mystery of the floodplaindry patch of ground – fiveand seven frond dream-makers gone…
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Summer’s Almost Gone
This is an older poem I came across while going through my old journals for material to use in my memoir. I wrote this in August of ’83 while sitting in a bus shelter waiting for the number 9. Summer’s Almost Gone August rains are coldThe sky is crying Wind gusts blow me downThe sky…
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A Life in Transition – Memoir Continued
The End of My Tenure at US Steel I was depressed and having a hard time dealing with work. They noticed the change in me and sent me to see a psychologist. He spoke to me for about 10 minutes and started pontificating on how all my problems were related to my relationship with my…
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Lynn – Part 10 – Post-Split Complications – Memoir Continued
Post-Split Complications Once I understood that Lynn had no intention of returning…ever, I went out with a couple of other women a couple of times, but there was no simpatico and no desire nor commitments of any kind from me or them. It was fun and a relief after the frigidity Lynn had demonstrated since…
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Lynn – Part 9 – Lynn and I Split – Memoir Continued
Lynn and I Split The following year, we went to visit Lynn’s dad, brother, and sister in Alexandria, VA. We went down on a long weekend (I was working swingshifts and had longer weekends at roughly 6 week intervals. We drove down, and she wanted to stay for a week or two (she ‘needed’ a…
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Lynn – Part 7 – Ian is Born – Memoir Continued
Ian Is Born Once we had moved in and lived at the farm for a while, Lynn became pregnant again. Our friend from the hospital, Joe, again supplied us with first aid, medical supplies for the birth. Yes, Mom was furious again that I was to deliver another baby at home. Again, Lynn insisted. But…
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Lynn – Part 6 – Memoir Continued
Lynn – Part 6 My brother, Guy, came up for a visit from OU in Athens, OH. He had been discharged from the Air Force earlier that year and was going to school on the G.I. Bill. One of his classes was beginning photography, and we were out in the front yard setting up different…
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