Brian W. Ferry Photography  http://www.brianwferry.com/            

ever since you left
i feel as if i had lost something.
like my keys had gone missing.
or i missed the last train,
and,
now what am i going to do!

but when i walked you to the train
and waved good by.
i knew you would be back.

maybe.

i mean, if thats what happens.

anyway,
as i told a friend,
i had been pleasantly surprised
by unexpected events.

    recorded directly to tape 2001. synth and electronic piano.

from Little Eyes

 

Cezanne could have walked here, in these Italian hills,
as seen from the train
on the way from Catania to Naples.

but no. i take it back.
where would he have found level ground to place his easel?

but if he had,
if he had worked here,
maybe Italy’s entrance into modernism would have been
more gentle than it was.
and perhaps
Marinetti would have written less aggressive essays
than he had,
in the 1930s.
and Italian artist’s would have made more poetic art.

but still,
the things they made were beautiful,
everyone agrees.
and certainly,
there paintings will be appreciated
long after the war has been forgotten.