American Idyll

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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Return Of The Summer Rerun



COTTONWOODS IN HAUNTED CANYON
EMERALD TRIANGLE LUPINES



Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4...Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
Jacqueline du Pré (cello) / Daniel Barenboim (piano)




REDBUD TREE IN TURQOUISE CANYON (2)
AND FRIENDS







Oh it was gorgeousness
and gorgeosity made flesh.
The trombones crunched
redgold under my bed,
and behind my gulliver
the trumpets three-wise
silverflamed, and there
by the door the timps
rolling through my guts
and out again
crunched like candy thunder.
Oh, it was wonder of wonders.
And then, a bird of like
rarest spun heavenmetal,
or like silvery wine
flowing in a spaceship,
gravity all nonsense now,
came the violin solo
above all the other strings,
and those strings were like
a cage of silk round my bed.
Then flute and oboe bored,
like worms of like platinum,
into the thick thick toffee
gold and silver.
I was in such bliss,
my brothers.
--Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange

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