Tonight, to celebrate the end of classes and the beginning of exam week, I'd like to post fellow Montgomery College professor Allyson Lima's poem, "D.C. Desert Dreams, After Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy."
D.C. Desert Dreams
After Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy
In the tiger-striped night
amber lamplight pulses
through leafy shadows
swaying watery images
on the night wall.
One eye wakes to see me sleep
transformed, a hunk of tiger,
my curled hand
a heavy-padded paw
to tread my desert dreams.
By Allyson Lima
Tonight I'll play a little Django Reinhardt, starting with "Minor Swing":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE1avXFJb4
Here he plays "After You've Gone": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH_Nn_TtDI
I'll finish with "La Mer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNQ4FR6Me8
Back to work for me!
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