i.
Dusty traveler
Blown in with the spring air
Through open windows
..
My heart embraces only those
Who leave
..
ii.
My tumbleweed—
For a moment
You’re blown back home
I wash your dusty feet
Memorizing calluses
And we split a pint of Rocky Road
Talk of nothing
Listening to the sound of our voices
mixing with the radio
..
I remember watching you fall
onto the bed, asleep.
And then there are only
The sounds of morning,
Wrinkled sheets,
And the left-behind smell of your shampoo
..
..
–from Keeping Records, © 2007 by Colette Mazunik. ISBN: 978-0-557-21108-1
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Flowers came
Today.
..
They weren’t
From you.
..
I spent my evening
Crushing petals
Gradually.
..
..
–from Keeping Records, © 2007 by Colette Mazunik. ISBN: 978-0-557-21108-1
Until 8/15/2010, you can receive 15% off this title at Lulu with coupon code BEACHREAD305.
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I eat artichoke hearts
And think of you
Bite cleanly through the marinated flesh
Light olive green
And layered
Like the little nesting Russian dolls
That swallow their younger siblings
Doll in doll in doll
..
I bite
and slowly chew
Imagine it’s your heart
I’m growing fat on
You
I’m nesting inside me
Brooding over you
Until you hatch
..
And I imagine you
Sending me
Not roses but
These green vegetables.
..
–from Keeping Records, © 2007 by Colette Mazunik. ISBN: 978-0-557-21108-1
Until 8/15/2010, you can receive 15% off this title at Lulu with coupon code BEACHREAD305.
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Tagged: Artichoke Hearts, Colette, Keeping Records, poem, poetry
Love is patient.
I, however, live in New York.
And when I stand in line
at the Duane Reade
waiting for the one cashier,
who plods through her tasks
with glacial ineptitude,
there is a gnashing of teeth
(mine),
and heavy sighing (also mine),
as I imagine writing a scathing
letter to the management,
pointing out, in carefully chosen words,
the folly of a strategy
that places only one incompetent cashier
at the front,
while minions of idle clerks
wander the purgatory of aisles
in vague oblivion.
..
–from Keeping Records, © 2007 by Colette Mazunik. ISBN: 978-0-557-21108-1
Until 8/15/2010, you can receive 15% off this title at Lulu with coupon code BEACHREAD305.
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For those of you in the New York region, you’re cordially invited to two sets of original music tonight in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. Evan will be performing with the Hollis Headrick Quintet at the Inkwell Cafe. Jazz, Soundpainting, and accordion licks will all be in the mix. As this is the last performance of the summer series, do swing by if you’re in the area. Details below.
Hollis Headrick Quintet
Thursday, July 22, 8-10:30 pm
PLG Arts Jazz at the Ink Well
408 Rogers Ave, between Sterling Street and Lefferts Avenue
$5 admission supports the performers and PLG Arts.
For more information contact
rina@plgarts.org or visit
www.plgarts.org
Hollis Headrick (drums) Evan Mazunik (accordion/Soundpainter) Rob Henke (trumpet) Rolf Sturm (guitar) Ryan Kotler (bass)
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I’m now the proud owner of my very own ISBN for my book of poetry Keeping Records. And in just a few more weeks, the book should be available for sale on Amazon.
In celebration of these steps, I thought I’d post some of the poems from this collection, starting with the title poem.
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Keeping Records
Love keeps no record of wrongs,
But it sure as heck
keeps records of Billie Holiday
and Nat King Cole,
Tony Bennett
and Doc Severinsen’s orchestra
playing “A Night in Tunisia”
with Dizzy wailing way up high.
Love keeps records
of Al Hirt
and Frank Sinatra,
who’s telling me Nice & Easy does it,
Fools Rush In, &
Try a Little Tenderness,
in tattered album
jackets,
waiting,
to give their grooves
to the needle.
–from Keeping Records, © 2007 by Colette Mazunik. ISBN: 978-0-557-21108-1
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Many thanks to all who made this summer’s Soundpainting Think Tank in Bordeaux a ton of fun and productive to boot. Here’s a video from an outdoor performance – although I wasn’t there for this, it captures a bit of the zany, playful spirit of the think tank:
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