The Lovers’ Chronicle 19 May – crowns – art by Claude Vignon – photography by John Vachon

Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Visit us on Twitter @cowboycoleridge. Z, be cool, be safe, be smart. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

yes, this is where
dusk delays long hours
and the never still air
stirs our hair as we wait

we have been here
suspended in our time
in this moment attune
with our rhythm and rhyme

and we find in the night,
in the streams, we find
the will, the way to cover
our newfound dreams

wherefore did i so much tempt

just tryin’ to catch

the feelin’s as they fly,

and use them to explain

belief, purpose,

comes when sought

cast into verse,

that you, in the comin’,

may know my devotion

in the mornin’

when the lovers

in dreams

open their eyes,

do you wake too

awake in bed partin’ thick curtains
of dreams and am startled by
the rapid return to reality

three o’clock, but you knew that,
under the suspension of belief
gropin’ for somethin’ to hold on to

the way the memories keep comin’
visions ebbin’ and flowin’ amidst
moonlight slantin’ across the floor

when do you git to the point
where enough is enough

never

and this,
many believe
you git to choose who you want

chilly, rain comin’
ready…
Newbury, playin’
wood stove burnin’
red wine pourin’
wish you were here achin’

Nothin’ more intense

nor more intimate

than to be inside

your mind. So c’mon

baby, let me in

******

if i had the strength

I would change my mind

and find my way back, but

oh, you know the rest

So c’mon baby

Let me go easy

Lyrics inspired by a Tennessee Williams poem called Clover. And a love song of the day and more quotes. Dedicated to you.

Crowns

Yes, this is the land where
Dusk delays long hours late
And the never still air
Stirs our hair as we wait

We have been here since noon
Suspended in our time
In this moment attune
With our rhythm and rhyme

And we find in the night,
In the darkness of streams,
We find the stars are white
Crowns that cover our dreams

Today is the birthday of Claude Vignon (Tours, France 19 May 1593 – 10 May 1670 Paris); painter, printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres. During a period of study in Italy, he became exposed to many new artistic currents, in particular through the works of Caravaggio and his followers, Guercino, Guido Reni and Annibale Caracci. A prolific artist, his work has remained enigmatic, contradictory and hard to define within a single term or style. His mature works are vibrantly coloured, splendidly lit and often extremely expressive.

Gallery

Flora

La parabole du serviteur impitoyable (1629), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.

David avec une épée et la tête de Goliath (1620-1623), Austin), musée d’art Blanton.
Une jeune femme, dont la maternité semble prochaine, implore la justice d’un guerrier(vers 1621), Dijon, Musée Magnin.
Lamentation de saint Pierre(1623-1630), Stanford Museum.
Salomon et la Reine de Saba (1624), Louvre.
Cléopâtre se donnant la mort (vers 1640-1650), Rennes, musée des beaux-arts.

Le jeune Chanteur (vers 1622) Paris, musée du Louvre.

John Vachon
Vachon in 1942

Today is the birthday of John Vachon (John Felix Vachon; Saint Paul, Minnesota May 19, 1914 – April 20, 1975 New York City); photographer. He worked as a filing clerk for the Farm Security Administration before Roy Stryker recruited him to join a small group of photographers, including Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Mary Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Charlotte Brooks, Carl Mydans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn, who were employed to publicize the conditions of the rural poor in America.

He received a bachelor’s degree in 1934 from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, then named the College of St. Thomas. In about 1938 he married Millicent Leeper who was known as Penny. She died in 1960. Vachon married Françoise Fourestier in 1961. Vachon served in the United States Army in 1945.

“In Omaha I realized that I had developed my own style with the camera. I knew that I would photograph only what pleased me or astonished my eye, and only in the way I saw it.”

Gallery

Girl at NYA (National Youth Administration) woodworking shop in the war training program.
San Augustine, Texas

Bismarck, North dakota

Ranson, South dakota

Luguillo Beach

Boat Launching from Luguillo Beach

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The song of the day is Lips of an Angel by Jack Ingram

Mac Tag

Then catch the moments as they fly,

And use them as ye ought, man:

Believe me, happiness is shy,

And comes not ay when sought, man.

Robert Burns

I cast my heart into my rhymes,

That you, in the dim coming times,

May know how my heart went with them

After the red-rose-bordered hem.

W.B. Yeats

In the morning when you open your eyes, do the lovers in your dreams wake up too. Ray Wylie Hubbard

But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens? Shakespeare

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