This week's poem, "Anatomy," was written while sitting at on patio bar in Livingston with a mid-afternoon hint of rain and a pint of of nice, local amber ale. While writing, I was reminded of that "head-bone's connected to the neck-bone" song and laughed out loud, getting strange looks from a nearby couple and Michael Keaton's dog who was leashed to the fence at the edge of the bar.
The poem makes reference to a line from Walking it Off by Doug Peacock:
"Ed [Abbey ] knew the best wisdom came directly from the earth; it runs right up our roots into the spirit. Walk on. The feet will inform the soul" (p. 56).
The music this week is a John Coltrane composition called "Nita." It's taken from Whims of Chambers by the Paul Chambers Sextet, featuring Chambers on bass, Coltrane on tenor sax, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Horace Silver on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. It was recorded for Blue Note at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on September 21, 1956.
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Report #31
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