A visual poem based on a dream.
plectrum
Category: Poetry
Poems and poets
Psychogeography 2
psychogeography 2
one hour later still listening
to the tree rustle and watching
grey clouds over passing
kite glide and soft rains gentle touch
breeze breathing dry leaves
rolling dancing over the weedy tarmac
campanula dandelion forget me not
magpies rattle distant and near sounding
repeating resonating the air sky chamber
as a pencil softs the grey lines
inviting transformation from passive to active
in the gaze of the last red nasturtium
Music for digital piano and electronics Virginia Scott with sound sample by Monolith and Cobalt
soft radio…
I wanted to share a little extended piano cut (inside the piano ) and a little poem of the same name that seemed to resonate with it. I started writing poetry in 1969 when I was in Courmayeur near Mont Blanc in the Italian Alp, teaching English one summer. I was lonely then, but lucky to have a great piano tutor in Carlo Vidusso at that time.
inside
soft radio
floorboard creaking
soon light will emerge
it’s sway
moving word time
last in the present series
This black bin bag contains the remains of a large canvas I created many years ago which so frightened me that I was compelled to cut it into small pieces , bag it up and take it to the skip. Today an interesting echo of this experience emerged and I felt happy that the painting had been deconstructed and disposed of. I recycled the stretcher and created a new image.
words are sounds through which we travel
remembering the way
i used to write every night
in front of the long window
as the days grew longer
swimming in the word pond
reliving memories
and perspectives
listening to what emerged
deeper down
in the inner word worlds
in the layers of word silt
words sounding
and forming meaning
Transpiration : a film by Virginia Scott
draw on
What were we drawing on as we improvised in and out of synch on those piano tracks ? All the better to hear our momentary lapses and collisions ? The poem is about collaborating with invisible pianist Lindy Karpestra and what were we thinking and dreaming.
draw on
and the invisible pianist
doodling repeat loops
faces in a riff
colliding with ourselves
meeting sky and smiles
on the meadow
draw on the top lip
unevenly shaped
in two twin slopes
of asymmetrical heights
Draw On- Virginia Scott Piano/ Modern Pianists out-take
about time
about timeor the story of two pianists
listening into that time
beating piano keys beating time
from the where i was
then in that wilderness
the chords a kind of chorus
after many a summer
piano lessons peeling
into a day like today
and it’s dusting of snow
melting through spring flowers
i see a pianist waving at me
and in my waving back
i feel our palms drawing together
touching and becoming one
Listen to piano music https://lindykarpestra.bandcamp.com/album/the-karpestra-dairies
imagining myself lying down
imagining my self lying down
on the earth curve face down
in the smell of grasses herbs and flowers
there the blackbird
couched on the dry earth
silently opening and closing his beak
spanning his wings
sunning and preening
watching the bees sucking sage
the ants scurrying the red brick wall
and clouds pulling over the sky
http://lindykarpestra.bandcamp.com
Veronica Satie/ Virginia Scott -Piano / Modern Pianisits out-take
the swan dream
i feel the memory
of the
swan
as she
nested
under my skirt
reminding me of
*the tin drum
a book my father
gave me when i left
home in 1970
‘something to read on the plane’
he said
‘if you want to know
about the war its
all in there ‘
twenty years later i finally
read it
*The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Swan Dream- Virginia Scott- Piano/ Modern Pianists/ out-take
Virginia Aurora Scott 