Field & Diamond – May 2021
Linda Eve Diamond and Joann Field traded art and words. Joann shared this image, titled “Jazz,” with Linda Eve:

In response, Linda Eve wrote this poem:
Chromatic Harmonies
Dark clouds, cool night
jazz band warming up.
We don’t expect much—
then light jazz takes a turn
turning on the jazz lights
rising up, taking shape
as a soothing tonic key opens up
the bridge between sound and sight
with bright chromatic harmonies
filled with prismatic possibilities
arrangements rearranging
variations taking flight
inversions inspiring a sense
of harmonically lit synesthesia
chords ascending and turning to gold
notes twinkling like a string of bulbs
all the winds swirling blues into spirals
piano notes scrawling a rolling cloud
the drums beating a lively pulse
emoting floating images to life
while faint visions of musicians
side-slip into softly lit silhouettes
aglow and nearly afloat with the notes
as if striking such a chord they blend
and transcend, appearing as if they
were composed by the music.
* * * * *
Linda Eve shared this poem with Joann:
Nightingale Notes
“Become a voice.”
– Sappho
Timeless nightingales in flight
float the most inspiring notes
through night and gales of echoes
back to Sappho’s songs of eros
and the ever-lasting invocation
of her ever-timely invitation
to become
a voice…
In response, Joann made this image, titled “resonance”:
