A creative himself, Ray & I talked about art and painting and music and writing, and all the strings that flow between those mediums, the incredible potential for boundless conversation. Rereading this poem reminds me of the lessons I am currently learning and re-learning while care-taking for my dad: we give it all back, eventually. Why not celebrate for having it in the first place?
A couple months ago, I tried two new things while typing Free Poetry during the Pasadena Art Walk: I used carbon paper for copies, and took photographs of each participant. Here’s a Poetry Portrait & Poem for Rebekah.
Here is “The Process.” Here are dreams, here is art, here is expression. Throw that body into the thralls of inspiration. Yes, it has led you down an unproductive path. Yes, it will abandon you to a space without answers. But tonight you are shaman and you shake like the stars. Your mind is my mind’s final frontier.
Here’s one my friend Jimmy requested; the subject was poet’s choice so I decided to write about photography, Jimmy’s passion.