tough day to be an umbrella

new cd: havana carbo

The ever-sweet, ever-gracious Havana Carbo just sent me a copy of her new CD, Phantoms of Love.

Her voice is as enchanting as ever.

Visit her website here.
Read more about Havana here.

And check out the list of musicians she gathered on this CD. Very impressive.

(images c/o Michael L. Flower)

tsurayuki

Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow,
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten.

jenn porreca at opera gallery, nyc

My friend Jenn Porreca will have some new work at:

Opera Gallery, NYC
115 Spring St.
New York, NY 10012

The opening is Friday January 15, 2010.

Please stop by if you can.

dark pop 2.0

Last Rites Gallery, W 33rd St.

Tin

Lesley Reppeteaux

Dan-ah Kim

w.s. merwin, part ii

Fate

Cloud in the morning
evening a white opal
after a white sun
the lighted opal sits on the rim
of dark mountains
some are born hearing dogs bark in the mountains
among high walls just after sunset
and all their lives things are known to them
that are not known even to those born hearing water
or trees or sobbing or flutes or laughing