Word Picture

by Kevin R. Carr

A man walks

 and stops

A man sees

 old shoes

 on pavement

A man strides

 early evening

 toward distant

 shadow trees

A man steps

 on grass

 gazing from

 deep places

 in thought

A man enters

 leafy shade

 staring inward

 and wonders

 what missing

 things are

A night stretches

 ever deep

 draws emotion

 from wells

 dead calm

 oil smooth

 iron cold

A man touches

 gnarled wood

 sagging branches

 humid soft

 waving heavy

 sodden weight

A man wades

 grasping weeds

 tangled feet

 slow advance

 intense quiet

A man sits

 watching weary

 halting movement

 feeling still

A man looks

 out under

 gray gloom

A man rises

 and walks

 KRC(1996)

Note to Self

by Jefferson Hansen

when a wish
can fall to dust
and a cry spindles
up into the grey

my answer
needs to be —

I am here, now

Two Drawings

by Walter Savage

Jazz

At First Glance

 Jazz was done entirely with Sharpie colored pens and At First Glance, pen and Sharpies. 

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W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and artist who now writes and draws full time. He is the author of six books and uses his art to design the covers of each (wjacksavage.com.) Jack is a St. Paul native and graduate of Brown Institute, Mankato State University and received a Master's Degree in Telecommunications and Film at California State University Los Angeles, where he taught film studies for six years. He and his wife Kathy (from Edina) live in Monrovia, California.

from "Espials"

9

by Felino Soriano

your capItalized logic

seers scented entropy

into paradigms of internal

signatures, the others’ and

their theories impose overweight

constructs immutable in

comparative concerts—the

tones—all very interpretive

interesting intimate as

the images of hands on

sounds, grasping communication

in the warming of interrogating

rhythms

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Felino Antonio Soriano’s work finds its foundation in created coöccurrences, predicated on his strong connection to various idioms of jazz music.  His poetry appears in varied publications with recent poetry collections including Of these voices (whitesky ebooks, 2013) Pathos|particular invocation (Fowlpox Press, 2013), Extolment in the praising exhalation of jazz (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2013), and the collaborative volume with poet, Heller Levinson and visual artist, Linda Lynch, Hinge Trio (La Alameda Press, 2012).  He lives in California with his wife and family and is the director of supported living and independent living programs providing supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Links to his published and forthcoming poems, books, interviews, images, etc. can be found at www.felinoasoriano.info.

The Altered Scale Blog Will Cease Publication on 12/31

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