Words and Images (part 1)

One of the blessings of starting this e-zine has been getting to know poet Felino A. Soriano and photographer Mary Judkins on Facebook and e-mail.  Tonight I am posting their collaboration.  Mary took the photograph above at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA, which in turn inspired Felino to write the following poem:

colorful thinker

                             —after an image by Mary Judkins

prior accolades

slant into the burgeon-bouquet leaping from the

oscillating wisdom

                              left within pulsating shadows &

such silvering

patina has

entrusted rust’s aging method to

engage with kaleidoscopic

syllables, their

truant prose always

recollecting purpose upon

return to the tongue &

mirror of her mind’s altering

fascinations, fixated measures

elongating an already notion of wisdom’s

spectral

                                                 impulses                        interpreting

environs & accompanying versions of moments’

isolated measures—

& her thinking instructs tonal

discoveries, synesthetic

motions rotate remedies of demise’s

depressive articulation,

                                                                              &

                                                                   either

                                                 faith

                                      has

                   tracked

backward                   thus redirecting invention’s policy of internal affirmation

                                                                                                          or

her silent slump

enunciates

an emotional understanding toward

needing these branches’ warming shade to

embrace within the wind’s      

mathematics of capturing confiscated whimsy

Enjoy!  I will finish with a few songs to accompany your reading:

Trombone Shorty plays "St. James' Infirmary" at the White House:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkWA539sezY

Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe "Pinecone" Gordon, et al play "Root Groove" here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MB3T0Pq-dE

Gordon's "Naima" is also very pensive and suits Mary and Felino's collaboration:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMj2zwcaboI

I'll finish with Regina Carter's version of "Mood Indigo":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAU5QSYmUsk