Having finished the alphabet poems, I was going to take a break—but then a line popped into my head this afternoon while I was at the book store. (The ‘refrain’ comes from the title of a Herbie Hancock album I saw at that same book store.)
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One breath, another breath (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Frank Perry’s album Zodiac.
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I hear a beckoning sound (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Brian Eno’s ‘Discreet Music’.
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The futility of words (A poem)
Sometimes I write in the morning…
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A meditation on the art of a performance (A poem)
I wrote this earlier this evening while watching the documentary Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present…
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The nature of silence (A poem)
I spent yesterday watching Japanese movies checked out from the library. This poem was inspired by クローンは故郷をめざす (The Clone Returns Home)…
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The sound of bells (A poem)
At the apartment complex where I live, recorded bells sound every half-hour from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. I wrote this in the morning, before the first bells…
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In a room by the lake towards the end of the day (a poem)
An unusual move for me: I wrote this poem this afternoon, then read it at an open mic three hours later…
Q&A: What is Tinty Music?
On to my musical past…
Ordinary Average Thoughts 