Download listen to Mark Weber | Did You Get Locked Out? and The Classical Jazz Quartet | Marche Touche from the Reindeer Can Really Fly Jazz Radio Show December 24, 2009, Host: Mark Weber KUNM Albuquerque, New Mexico
My grandmother,
who could never be called lovable,
did teach me something useful –
a terse, Yiddish fashion appraisal:
“It suits you
like earrings
on a kangaroo.”
Two Reasons Why I Like Men
(1) The vulnerability of their legs
in shorts,
(2) The innocence of their bare chests
in August.
Ernest Hemingway and Soren Kierkegaard
liked to write standing up at a podium.
I hear you ask, “Why?”
I do [...]
Trio 3 | Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille | November 5, 2009 Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque | Photos by Mark Weber
THE HURT SONG
The roots of the hurt song
snares the ankles of me, trapping me
in a tangle; the twisting binds me
tighter as the visions speak.
The arrows of my jazz strikes from
hotel room shadows; strange [...]
Art Pepper Quintet with Bob Magnusson, John Dentz and guest Lee Konitz at Donte’s North Hollywood 1982 | Photo: Mark Weber
NIGHT SPIRITS
It’s a shame
mornings gotta come up with
a bright bleaching, extinguishing the dark,
sending stars into hiding
and the moon to the other side of the earth.
An up sun provides the aroma of
breakfast, drowning out the flavor [...]
“Movement is the key to everything,” I over-
heard one of the trainers at the gym say -
amen to that-
I can’t help wondering if
I’m a textbook example of a middle-aged person
endeavoring to retain as much youth as possible
by becoming a gym rat?
my beloved Saul Bellow was a health freak, too
all those gym scenes in his novels
were [...]
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