Magpie Tales 92 – He loved Fellini–“Like a Cello (or Two)”
Here’s my offering (fresh off the press) for Magpie Tales 92, a very cool writing/photo blog hosted by Tess Kincaid. I’ve modified Tess’s wonderful photo, and I’m afraid my offering may show my age. (If you don’t know the references, check them out!)
Like a Cello (or Two)
He loved Fellini;
She tended towards George Cukor:
Mastroianni led the forward skip of
his self-style–hers Audrey, champagne
lightness in black flats, though she also
kept Marcello in the loop. (And how!)
Like a cello, each body curved–
a cello clothed in case for protective
carry through black/white streets till
he carried her to sheets too soft
for his tweed jacket, her bare arms
making up the smoothness gap.
Like a bow was the straight line of their connection–but
how can two cellos be played upon at once?
They managed it.
(P.S. – edited this very slightly since sending out–taking out “a” before case. And I really feel like something about reverberation should be added. Any ideas.)
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ManicDDaily 
November 20, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Lots of delicious references here, and I agree, leaving out the ‘a’ allows a second meaning for ‘case’.
And now that you mention it, I can’t remember ever seeing Joanne Woodward in high heels! Was she so tall?
November 20, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Audrey Hepburn!!!!
November 20, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Agh! You know I’m such a dolt, I didn’t realize till now that it was Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. I was thinking of much more random people that reminded me of Mastroianni and Hepburn! Oh dear! Now I feel very silly indeed! I would have written a much much different poem.
November 20, 2011 at 1:42 pm
“…bare arms
making up the smoothness gap…” Nice.
November 20, 2011 at 1:48 pm
simply lovely
November 20, 2011 at 2:16 pm
how can two cellos be played upon at once….love your poem of musical reference…love’s music
November 20, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Wonderful verse! As a musician myself, I especially enjoyed your music references!
I also stopped by to congratulate you. You won an Honorable Mention in last week’s Limerick-Off. Great job! Limerick of the Week 36
I hope you’ll be a frequent participant. (I post a new Limerick-Off each week, usually on Sunday or Monday. A new contest has already begun. )
November 20, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Thanks so much, Mad! Just read your new one–very funny! (They always are though.)
November 20, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Sophisticated and smart …
November 20, 2011 at 5:04 pm
She absolutely has an Audrey Hepburn classic-gamine quality and your poem captures the staged-but-genuine feeling of the prompt.
November 20, 2011 at 5:48 pm
nice take! and the pic, awesome!
JJRod’z
November 20, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Yes, indeed they did…wonderful write…
November 20, 2011 at 6:22 pm
You know, when I do one quickly, like this, then I come up with something much more “marinated” later in the day. Oh well. The life of the blogger. Thanks for the prompt!
November 20, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Terrific sketch and stunningl words!
November 20, 2011 at 8:17 pm
In music, there is such a thing as sympathetic vibration. For instance, if you are tuning a guitar, you use one tuned string to help tune another. By pressing your finger on the string so that when struck it plays the note that the next strung (unpressed) plays, you can tell if the next string is in tune if it sounds the same when struck. When perfectly in tune, you can strike the tuned string, silence it, and without striking the next string, it will ring with the proper pitch. Make sense?
November 20, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Yes. Very good!
November 20, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Another stunning poem, K. I love the first line– you are so good with building a poem with the flesh of detail/layers of specificity I especially liked
Like a cello, each body curved–
a cello clothed in case for protective
carry through black/white streets till
he carried her to sheets too soft
for his tweed jacket, her bare arms
making up the smoothness gap.
i’m not so sure you need to elaborate on resonance per se– I think it’s implied, in a way. xxxj
November 20, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Ha. I wrote a whole other poem later, which I really like better for the prompt–or maybe not for the prompt but as a poem, but not sure how to post. Sometime! Thanks.
November 21, 2011 at 6:46 am
clever, witty, fresh and spectacular. Great fun to read. Thank you for it.
November 21, 2011 at 12:21 pm
very nice…bodies bent like a cello, i like and from that point on it flows like sweet music…nice build in the opening parts….i like…
November 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Thanks. Of course, I had much better ideas later in the day. The issue of blogging!
November 21, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I love that he loved Fellini!
Most excellent write! So many wonderful references!
🙂
November 21, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Ha. Well, I’ve since found out that the photo was Paul Newman, but to my half-blind eyes he looked very much like someone emulating Marcello Mastroianni–another amazing heart throb. (They both actually have a similar sort of charming dash.)
November 21, 2011 at 4:13 pm
I like playing beautiful music, too….
November 21, 2011 at 7:05 pm
It makes me want to dance naked in a large Italian fountain. Oh my
November 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Ha! Sounds like a good idea. K.
November 21, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Greetings,
hope all is well,
invite you to join poetry picnic today, simply share a relevant or a random piece, and enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Always, your presence is sunshine to us.
Best Wishes!
your talent rocks.
xoxox
November 22, 2011 at 3:49 am
Clever, clever, clever you and delightfully so! I enjoyed the imagery of negative, the delightful dance of the two opposites coming together as lovers – the impossible chemistry made possible somehow and, thus, defying any semblance of logic, which doesn’t equate in the factor of ‘love’. Well done!
November 22, 2011 at 4:39 am
I like very much the drawing together of musical reference and the gently erotic in a kind of counterpoint function here. This works so well.
November 26, 2011 at 6:58 pm
the ending was brilliant. did you draw that picture/cartoon?
November 26, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Thanks. Yes, I make almost all the art on the blog. That was done on iPad. K.
December 1, 2011 at 10:16 am
Oh oh my.
I bend and bow to the earth
borne down by the sweet lights
of your cinematic vision
what’s in a name if
it’s a star lodged in our memory
Have to forward this to my dearest friends
loving the movies
December 1, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Thanks so much.