romance of autumn
my retelling of an old jazz standard, all those months (years?) ago - unfinished, was partly a song for a woman, a dark shadowy presence who was not my girlfriend..also an expression of me & mine's distance...
in the 1st verse i wake up from a dream in which she's left me...
so much time has passed since i wrote it it's meant a few different things to me, one of the reasons it's not finished is that me & mine cleared up our differences in that way a week or so later...
also me & the shadowy figure was nothing but a fantasy...
it's possible i hesitate to finish it because i don't want to go back to that vibe,
but also possible i don't finish it because i want that vibe to continue, i don't want to kill it...
anyway, i've been struck by an autumn malaise these past few weeks and in a way i want to rescue this song and dress it in autumn colours, no betrayal necessary,
part of this romance of autumn has been a young woman i met who has enraptured me, briefly, so it seems... unreal, far from realisable and glad it's that way ,but she's in my head and she's wrapped in autumn colours,
like that song i wrote for A, years back,
i have an urge to read some thomas bernard, listen to portishead, i want to find that article i once read about rilke and a philosopher before him, who wrote about the spiders web...
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