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:

“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”: