moon traveller herald

  Jim Haas did a radioactiva broadcast with music from our pool hall days - and a new song arose out of the  signal. Lucky Cue Blues I told you once I told you twice Better take it easy cause the place’s on fire When you’re moving right up close to me You make my heart sing! And I tried and I tried and I tried   Your way on top now get under the covers Your slacks are low And your hips are showing Two big horns and a wooly jaw I hope just once those doors aren’t locked   I was unable to find my way All I have to do is worry I would give the moon if it were mine to give And I’ll cry just a little don’t you know Im human oh your sigh’s very clear knocks upon my door   Every night I still hear No more rain From where we came Im so glad we made it Listen my love And it sounds like this   I want to provide for you And live my life like it just begun I know theres a lot of fish in the see And I tried and...

i. Thinking of early 20th Century poets lately, and the sense of cinema in their composition.  So many poems read for me like films -- ones that zeroed in on a blue mood of suspicious clarity. It's as if I flew on the wings of the camera into the modeled set of Citizen Kane -- the one with the neon blinking lighting on the roof of  the night club and going down a skylight to where the reporter interviews sad and drunken Susan Alexander. Blaise Cendrars, particularly, but also Garcia Lorca, and Guillermo Apollinaire seem influenced by the journalistic dispatch, extreme abstraction, the collage, and the camera eye view. I only discovered Cendrars recently  and was blown away by the mood his poems encompassed, bordering on something like a black&white Warner Bros movie - say,  Across the Pacific .    One poem leads to another when the spirit is right, and Cendrars eventually took me back to My Poetry Bookshelf and a work of Hart Crane.  ii. Both Crane...

Moses Fleetwood Walker We had plans to attend an author’s evening at the Boston Public Library Jan 6. The author was Ted Reinstein, reporter with "Chronicle" on Boston's WCVB-TV, and he’d be discussing his new book Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press, November 2021). Unfortunately, the Omicron Covid-19 variant is rampant, so the live lecture gave way to (you guessed it) a Zoom meeting. Reinstein is an able, engaging and vivid story teller – wish we could have been at the BPL Rabb Hall, but his passionate interest in history, sport and people came across with still vigorous energy, even tho ‘over the wire’.  Don’t know Ted – except over the Tube on Chronicle, a great TV news magazine that does just that: chronicle the stories of New England history, place and life. -- but I had the good time working with Ted’s brother Bill Reinstein back at the turn of the century on ITworld.com where he was founder and publisher. Trem...

  Jack Vaughan 3 · Trump Is No Good   I recorded this on Oct 20, 2020. Dark days they were. It came on the wind that sang death dont have not mercy in this land. - Jack Vaughan  

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