SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS

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Poetry from Jeffrey Spahr-Summers

Posted on 04/01/2024 by Synchronized Chaos

Bucket of drumsticks on a table next to an open book. Pink haze on these items, table and ground are hazy brown. Text in green reads "marching as a cadet in a beret in the transvaal in step in the kiln of summer in the front row with a drum and two sticks this is worth it i've got the snare now baby i've got it" Text on top in script font in green reads "2 sticks"

Abstract design of what looks like a tan bump, like a mountain, with an interlocking pink and blue pattern in the background. Black text reads "fifteen minutes of fame he said, andy warhol one weird ass dude an artist who said everyone gets it what's coming to them. I mean I've already had mine up to here, so no biggie no rush no pressure, thanks all the same"

Person of indeterminate age and gender standing with their back to us and their face towards a wooden fence and a curtain. Picture is in sepia and text in brown reads "Mean Mr. Mustard. really he isn't mean at all, he's just a writer an artist insufferably shy perpetually preoccupied hiding behind cameras and glasses and pens taking it all to heart"

Silver coin from South Africa in someone's palm. Whole image is gray. Text in white reads "The Silver Coin. a remnant of old experiment a token of old fears remembered in my hand paul kruger the first president on the front a springbok in the back suid afrika it says 1967 soli deo gloria still smooth and ominous"

Red chairs at a white table under a faded gray abstract art poster on a wall. Text in black reads 'after the rain we sit alone across the table unable to account for the storm driving through our lives like tourists slowing to point at the sight of us"

2 thoughts on “Poetry from Jeffrey Spahr-Summers”

Maurizio Brancaleoni on 04/01/2024 at 3:00 AM said:

Nice combo of art and poetry, I like to consider this type of contemporary “picture-poems” as the Western natural evolution of haiga.
- Jeffrey Spahr-Summers on 04/09/2024 at 5:13 AM said:
  
  Thank you.

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