Category Archives: Music
The Sound Of The Sea
space Long ago — toward the bottom of the silo of memory which sings in me – I sat by the sea, entranced at the sound of its voice blent with our mother’s as she stood over me, womb to … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Memoir, Music, Prayer, The Sea
The Okie Blademan’s Song
space I am a turbine tech for the county and I ride these windy roads climbing to God’s country to milk the whirling loads … Or at least that’s how I sing it driving out from Woodward to the wind … Continue reading
Learning to Forget That Passionate Singing, Writing Every High and Low Note Down
“Orpheus’ Lament” by Alexandre Seon, 1896. space In January 1999 my wife’s nephew James drove too fast on I-95 one halcyon Saturday, swerved around a slower car, overcorrected and went flying off the road, his red Honda Civic howling rap … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alchemies, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Grails, Memoir, Music, Poetry
“You Must Believe In Spring”
space Late summer of ‘95: Two years into my divorce, the hardest hammers of separation and guilt for breaking up a family ebbed back far enough to yearn again for what sustains. En route I went crazy for a young … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Devotions, Floridiana, Grails, History, Immrama, Jazz, Love, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Music, Poetry, Remembrance, The Sea
The Fatal Apogee of Lisa-Marie Maghee
space Born of hot fame’s suede-blue flame her lips buttocked into Daddy’ venereal, a sneer so sensual and ripe the boys came in their Levis before blurting Hey Girl. None got up under her rhinestone-studded shirt without becoming quarry to … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Art and Heart, Blue, Celestial events, Grails, Love, Madness and Mania, Music
Letter to an Dead Shaman: Guinnevere
space “… Usually sickness, dreams, and ecstasies in themselves constitute an initiation, that is, they transform the profane, pre-’choice’ individual into a technician of the sacred. Naturally, this ecstatic type of experience is always and everywhere followed by theoretical and … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Celtic myth, Devotions, Grails, History, Memoir, Music, Mythology, poetics, Poetry, Remembrance, Sexuality, Shamanism
Passion
“This Guy Really Likes My Mom,” by Isadora Gruye space “Passion is no ordinary word” my hero Graham Parker sang on his ‘79 album Squeezing Out Sparks. How I agreed, belting out the song on my Gibson Jaguar guitar, ripping … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Blue, Creativity, Grails, Immrama, Madness and Mania, Music, Otherworlds, Poetry, The Sea, Voyagers
Hanging On The Line With The Lineman
Jimmy Webb (r) wrote “By the Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Witchita Lineman,” and “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” — a triptych of songs leading to this present moment. space (Reposted from December 31, 2010, in honor of 24-year-old … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Culture, History, Life, Madness and Mania, Music, poetics, Prose, Pyschology, Writing
Cave Of The Spirits
space space The spirits were calling me from early on, calling from the seabed of time poured out from cosmos. They were old when they bid hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic to paint their thrall on cave walls, their star-seeding ardors … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Celestial events, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Dream, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, History, Immrama, Iona, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Mind, Music, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Noir, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, Quantum World, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, the library down under, The Sea
My Father’s Chapel
space In a black-and-white photograph my father stands before his chapel. His face is set hard and grey like the standing stone he rests a hand on. The sky behind is troubled. This is my altar to him. My father’s … Continue reading
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