Jun 2022
ANY ONE VOWEL OF THE SINGER'S CHOOSING
The photo freezes
us into
this exact
instant.
Yet leaves out
the intense heat.
We locked into this
kiss forever
happening in colour
frozen in B&W.
Curiously there are no
insects in this
photographic world.
Yet so many
on that "then."
We are at once badly
smitten & bitten.
Our friend's song
also is not
captured
as the world stops
for just that
instant.
Her naked voice
stripped of words
her vocalise
tangled amongst
sunlight and leaves.
A fingerprint in purple
paint( added years later )
is not visible
on this
day of days
a thing tangible
as a soul
made visible
in deep purple.
The photo also fails
to convey
your lip's softness
the kiss's smell
of Chardonnay & menthol ciggies.
Sweet sweat
trickling into eyes wide open
our breaths
mingling.
I take in all
the photo elects
to leave
out.
The kiss
hidden now
by death...
...the death of days
and that infamous
famous purple fingerprint.
*
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and published in 1915 as the last of his "Fourteen Songs", Op. 34. Written for high voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel (of the singer's choosing). It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.
Ha ha...I just like the phrase...it is the instruction to the singer and I had only heard it sung on an O so my friend was doing A...I...E...U...and Y versions for me! All this singing floating about as the camera goes click in the middle of a kiss and we are trapped in a b&w forever. It was going to be called WHAT THE PHOTO LEAVES OUT but I'm much more pleased with its present title! Singers tend to do "O" versions mostly! Although there is a theremin version!
The photo freezes
us into
this exact
instant.
Yet leaves out
the intense heat.
We locked into this
kiss forever
happening in colour
frozen in B&W.
Curiously there are no
insects in this
photographic world.
Yet so many
on that "then."
We are at once badly
smitten & bitten.
Our friend's song
also is not
captured
as the world stops
for just that
instant.
Her naked voice
stripped of words
her vocalise
tangled amongst
sunlight and leaves.
A fingerprint in purple
paint( added years later )
is not visible
on this
day of days
a thing tangible
as a soul
made visible
in deep purple.
The photo also fails
to convey
your lip's softness
the kiss's smell
of Chardonnay & menthol ciggies.
Sweet sweat
trickling into eyes wide open
our breaths
mingling.
I take in all
the photo elects
to leave
out.
The kiss
hidden now
by death...
...the death of days
and that infamous
famous purple fingerprint.
*
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and published in 1915 as the last of his "Fourteen Songs", Op. 34. Written for high voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel (of the singer's choosing). It was dedicated to soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.
Ha ha...I just like the phrase...it is the instruction to the singer and I had only heard it sung on an O so my friend was doing A...I...E...U...and Y versions for me! All this singing floating about as the camera goes click in the middle of a kiss and we are trapped in a b&w forever. It was going to be called WHAT THE PHOTO LEAVES OUT but I'm much more pleased with its present title! Singers tend to do "O" versions mostly! Although there is a theremin version!
