Description Poem by Sophia Kartsonis
Video and Ukulele Music by Kate Rhoades
Last Leg
of a journey peopled with ever-strangers.
Melting Woman seeks Coldest Man for structure.
Tell me a romance, Mr. Jones.
How light weighs on the weary.
If you don't play the fiddle or a mean banjo strike a triangle to call me in.
Or hum the last bar
of Melancholy Baby and I'm aswoon.
Woozy Girl seeks Dizzy Boy for possible carousal.
Merry-go-round a mulberry bush. A carousel full of berry-drunk ponies
bellied to spooky music. A world round as a dinnerplate.
Glee me now.
Let's build a gingerbread house
on softest frosting with spun-sugar windows
that sweet-cut when they shatter.
Let's never be dead.
Sophia Kartsonis did this with me, so there's no copyright infringement. Just so you know.
... written by Tim Rietenbach,
May 30, 2010
Kate's video is the best of the lot, it stays true to the nature of poetry by not illustrating the poem but creating illusive parallels in image, movement and most importantly abbreviation.Sophia's words set that relationship up perfectly.
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