Thursday, July 20, 2017

-Poetry with spatial accompaniment-

1.

It wasn't meant to accompany the poem, but
from behind the writing table music was playing
through the slick machinery:

Morton Feldman's: "Two Intermissions For Solo Piano".

The poem (not this one, but the one in question)
seemed to expand its meter committing itself to

Feldman's elasticity as if the keys
(of my MacBook, not Aki Takahashi's piano)
were destined to, well, fill-in-the-blanks.–– But

as it turned out it wasn’t very good.
(the poem, not the Feldman) 
The Feldman was pretty good.

2.

I like the pacing and spacial mobility of Morton Feldman.
He allows the listener time to...

leave the table and walk to the snack bar at the fading
of one chord and return to the wheelhouse of the poem
with a burger and fries and refreshing ice-cold Coca-Cola
in time for the start of the next chord.


                                                                









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