{"id":1438,"date":"2013-10-02T21:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:12:08","slug":"gordon-marshall-boston-music-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2013\/10\/gordon-marshall-boston-music-poet.html","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Marshall, Boston music poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston-based poet Gordon Marshal<\/strong>l has published 12 collections of his works, and is currently blogging on The Flash: jazz, noise, psych from the house scene in Boston<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0There he writes prose. All his poetry is musical, whether directly about music or not. See also my report about Boston doubling down on jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Different Colors<\/strong><\/p>\n

The silence of the streets
\nIn the outdoor night
\nRemembered to Miles Davis’
\nPangaea, the bopping beat
\nElectric, going nowhere
\nAnd everywhere, Sonny Fortune
\nSax loping a loop around
\nThe city street I remember,
\nUnder the eye of the clock
\nSwitching and sorting
\nMy strides, heavy to slow
\nTo rapid and light,
\nSeeing what is comfortable
\nUnder city light, now green
\nNow lavender pink,
\nIt makes me think of the jazz
\nI’m hearing, now as I switch gear,
\nAnd Miles Davis the mechanic
\nMulching the chords,
\nMutating, altering the step
\nOf unfolding harmonies
\nLike the panoply of lights
\nFlashing at odd intervals
\nIn different colors, like the music<\/p>\n

Yoko’s Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suck on a wet fruit, a grapefruit,
\nSay, pink and succulent and sour
\nYoko’s piano the sweetness of<\/p>\n

The hour, the lilt, the wilt,
\nThe fadeless flower
\nBringing its pollen to my nose<\/p>\n

I’m in a close place
\nPerspiring sweat with her
\nHolding my hand like her song<\/p>\n

The phrases I say
\nFilled with her music
\nJolty, jaunty fingering<\/p>\n

Filling up my mind
\nThe grapefruit rind so delectable
\nI have to eat it, too<\/p>\n

\"sonny\"<\/p>\n

Way Out West (Sonny Rollins)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A space between two notes
\nCirculated, extended
\nRush of scales
\nPouring out between<\/p>\n

Brash, elated joy
\nFunky as chili chocolate
\nBrass bell a mermaid tail
\nIn a seaman’s tale<\/p>\n

Sonny at the go
\nGardening with his hoe
\nA crop of brown potatoes
\nDeep in the salty soil<\/p>\n

Jerk back like a fisher
\nReeling in a round
\nFire fugue in a circle
\nIgniting the Western town<\/p>\n

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Boston-based poet Gordon Marshall has published 12 collections of his works, and is currently blogging on The Flash: jazz, noise, psych from the house scene in Boston.\u00c2\u00a0There he writes prose. All his poetry is musical, whether directly about music or not. See also my report about Boston doubling down on jazz. Different Colors The silence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne.html","url_meta":{"origin":1438,"position":0},"title":"best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil — Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0Kirpal Gordon's appreciation of and insight into my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. 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