The Salinghetti Chronicles Vol. 360
First Fall Night
Matthew LaBarge – Prelude
Fred Small – The Heart of the Appaloosa
Spectrum – The Thunder Rolls
Ani DiFranco – Both Hands
Kenny Baker & Bill Monroe - Jerusalem Ridge
Ani DiFranco – Dog Coffee
Bill Monroe – Going Across the Sea
Ani DiFranco – Fire Door
Spectrum – While She Sleeps
Ani DiFranco – The Slant
Fred Small - Talking Wheelchair Blues
Ani DiFranco – Rush Hour
Matthew LaBarge – Love Song
Ani DiFranco – Out of Habit
Ani DiFranco – Every Angle
Spectrum – Ricky’s Prayer
Ani DiFranco – Work Your Way Out
Ani DiFranco – Talk to Me Now
Spectrum – Storms in Africa
Ani DiFranco – Letting the Telephone Ring
Spectrum – The Thunder Rolls
he looked out the window a the mist of the darkening sun, the late afternoon rain, that thundered into early evening, and the cool mist that it created – the mist that he knew was from the heat and the steam of the ground, as though the hearth were giving up its own breath, as though as a refutation of the breath that God had breathed into the creatures that He had formed from the dust . . .
Ani DiFranco – Both Hands
and she was wandering through the rain in the evening and she was hunched down inside her thick peacoat that was once belonged to her great uncle and she was passing by the stone buildings and iron railings and in this grey Manhattan midwinter she had the cellphone crocked under her cheek and she was listening for the end of the line to answer and she was rubbing both hands together and blowing steam through her fingers and they were numb and red and she was thinking
about old women’s faces behind doors as she snuck men to her room and she was thinking of the lampshade that he broke in low moans and the curtains that were torn from the rungs and she was thinking of her both hands that she rubbing together now how her fingers traced the downline of his back and found the soft hair of his plexus and how
both her hands
had been in both his hands and how
they had all been warm.
Kenny Baker & Bill Monroe – Jerusalem Ridge
Ani DiFranco – Dog Coffee
walking Central Park,
outside, leaves crossing path where roots kicking up the sidewalk,
going into – and then
at first light walking through a procedure in the dark,
Ani DiFranco – Fire Door
looking out the window while drinking coffee
While She Sleeps
Ani DiFranco – Pale Purple
woman behind the counter – reaching for keys – tight behind the shirt
Matthew LaBarge – Love Song
watching her walk toward the bathroom, shedding her coat as she strides, the elegance of her calves, slender yet strong, sinews lacing around the Achilles heel.
she stretches, pulling her hair out from the tieback, letting it cascade in black waterfall.
NOTES WRITTEN:
MR
2009-0617