Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Desolations Angels I read but it was well over thirty years ago and I don't remember anything about it except the end. His other books were far more memorable. I reread The Subterraneans and Tristessa recently. I would highly recommend Tristessa as well. Tristessa is a very intense but tender and ...

Indeed, I have read many books by Kerouac and I definitely got from your previous message that my poem reminded you of that book. I have also ready many other books by Kerouac. "Dharma Bums" "Big Sur" "Maggie Cassidy" "The Subterraneans" and "Tristessa". I would highly recommend those last two in ...

Mnaz, thank you so much. This poem was entirely autobiographical for me. All based on real life. I deeply appreciate and am deeply grateful for your read tonight.

John

Denver Vortex Sutra

I saw myself wandering the neon midnight avenues of Denver hunting the white aspirin of salvation, only to be tossed from the concrete lobby in-to the cold void of Crazy!

Who dug for the shimmering Buddha in the coughing lungs of downtown junkies and gutter-wine alkies, weeping ...

Thank you so much Winddance, my friend. I love those old movies too. Nothing today compares to them in depth and the quality of their art. Movies like "Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando are the most artfully crafted ever.

John

Much thanks Mnaz my friend. Glad you liked this. I still have your book, Roundscape - Notes from Space, about your travels in the southwest. Coming from a writer of your gift your like means so much.

John

I love koto music. Japanese music at its finest. Thank you so much my friend. I couldn't have wished for a better reply.

John

Processional

Gentle rapids roll
Over sculpted sandstone
Sunken bowl in rocks
A natural cooler for round watermelon
Where sweet orb floats and rolls
In dark water cocoon
As planet rotates
Under sea of stars
Myriad worlds process
Over our campsite
Where we dream deeply
In night’s embrace

Sasha this was an amazing meshing of quantum physics and mythical mysticism. The mysterious crystal object becomes a kind of living thing that follows Neil into his dreams. Then the exorcism by fire with that strange happening of the smoke and flame left it as a kind of cosmic mystery experienced on ...

I am so glad to see you still here and well Sasha my friend. I have missed your writing. I will never forget the series you wrote on your experiences after having had a stroke. Your account of your experience was fascinating as you described it all from the moment it happened to the hospital. You ...

Thank you so much for reading winddance, my friend. Very glad to see you again as well. Happy to be back.

John

I. Bauhaus Fashionettes vs. the Discothèque Sirens

A lone fashionette, in her Bauhaus solitude, is lost among the Discothèque Sirens whose glamour contrasts with her monochrome dress. But she learns disco moves from the Queen of the ball.
A man asks her about the geometric patterns on her blouse ...

Typecast America

America was an affair to remember
With her boozy ballroom style
Straight out of a Garbo movie
But the actress got written out of the script
In favor of a debutante with looks that kill
But doesn’t know her screen personality
From her suburban life in a station wagon
With grunge ...

American Cannibals

America, your doors are closed
You live in gated garrisons
Where love is a dying rose
Which once bloomed on Ellis Island
But hasn’t been seen since armies of salvation
Marched in Europe
When foreign tongues were welcome
From Brooklyn to New Orleans
With Russian émigrés gathered ...

I couldn't agree more my friend. And his first term was bad enough for the immigrants. Now things have taken a bend sinister even worse and I couldn't have imagined back then.

John