2014/15 were years of recovery from surgery. Studio time was limited.
I found with a pad and pencil I could create some poems about my experience. Here are two I wrote while in post surgical rehab in Field Home, 2014. They were recited on the Highland’s Current website under “One Poem a Day Won’t Kill You” Mostly I keep them as my journal.
–Sheilah Rechtschaffer
Gene Krupa
She sits by the window.
In a wing chair.
"Is that Gene Krupa?"
"Yes I like all music"
She gets up
"I say good choices"
She says
"not me
It's the house music"
Joy!
11/2014
Notes:
About another resident sitting in the lobby when the PA was playing Gene Krupa, the great jazz drummer. I thought the energy and the classic jazz rif was an interesting interface, especially there.