Love the ending of the 2nd, Max. And it all over to it.
Saw some Chihuly in Phoenix years ago: amazing stuff (but lucky for us he wasn’t there, I guess). Good title (song) & story-line.
Doug
> On May 25, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> To last week’s set of dream poems I now add two more…
>
> 4. My Chihuly
>
> Also on the monorail I recognize
> from his eyepatch Dale Chihuly
> virtuoso of glass sculpture
>
> returning downtown from his
> Glass Art and Garden hard by
> the Seattle Space Needle.
>
> I don’t accost him, just snap him
> as we glide through the garish
> Gehry music museum and onward.
>
> Next thing we’re having his houseboat
> pointed out on Lake Union
> as our cruise passes close by.
>
> 'Watch out,' says our guide, 'great
> artist that he is, he likes to lean
> on his rail in the altogether,
>
> except for his pirate eyepatch.'
> When I’m great, that I shan’t match.
> If this were a dream I’d step over
>
> and fraternize as his equal.
> His big bright conglomerations
> shimmer and tinkle in the mind.
>
> 5. In the Country
>
> I’m a guest at two Bloomsbury parties.
> The first is at the Woolfs’ place
> in the country. Virginia this summer
> afternoon has no servants - she
> manages the kitchen expertly.
>
> Leonard pours us all liberal drinks.
> Tentative at first, I chat with Morgan;
> his early novels; he’s charming. Soon
> we’ll chat about India - but something
> separates us - ‘not here, not now.'
>
> Next day we meet again - in the country
> outside Melbourne. Now I’m the local,
> encouraging them to look unjudgingly.
> Impossible, says Lytton. Be generous,
> says Morgan. Says Virginia, their voices!
Douglas Barbour
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