Debussy’s glissandi
Always feel like golden showers
As sunburst as ripened fruit
Intoxicating and treacherous
Rippling against the grain.
What internecine integrity
Emerges within the Anglo-French pallor
Of such besotted pedantry.
The genius of invention
Like the worm in the bud
Soaks up the essence
Of being something else.
Pure frisson
As Pickwickian capers
Are fractured and rearranged
Through a different kind of sensory
Contoured, febrile, defying the exotic.
Sensibilities are traded
Across the treble clef
The written page
Embedded in burgundy
And the Norman Gallic twist.
These artifacts approach us deceptively
Blanc et noir
Yet truly knowing
Like Ford Maddox Ford
And The Good Soldier
Observant of all this vital decay
We charmingly call life:
La Mer as English ice
Or the Bournemouth seascape
Filtered through the lace
Of hotel windows
And the jolt of semi-exile.
Ululating
Such creative souls
Wander amongst the dead languages
To steal a kiss from foreign lands
And smack our lips with visceral pain.
Gar Jones - January 2016
Always feel like golden showers
As sunburst as ripened fruit
Intoxicating and treacherous
Rippling against the grain.
What internecine integrity
Emerges within the Anglo-French pallor
Of such besotted pedantry.
The genius of invention
Like the worm in the bud
Soaks up the essence
Of being something else.
Pure frisson
As Pickwickian capers
Are fractured and rearranged
Through a different kind of sensory
Contoured, febrile, defying the exotic.
Sensibilities are traded
Across the treble clef
The written page
Embedded in burgundy
And the Norman Gallic twist.
These artifacts approach us deceptively
Blanc et noir
Yet truly knowing
Like Ford Maddox Ford
And The Good Soldier
Observant of all this vital decay
We charmingly call life:
La Mer as English ice
Or the Bournemouth seascape
Filtered through the lace
Of hotel windows
And the jolt of semi-exile.
Ululating
Such creative souls
Wander amongst the dead languages
To steal a kiss from foreign lands
And smack our lips with visceral pain.
Gar Jones - January 2016