Life, like jazz
Contingencies in place
for everything imaginable
until of course
the unimaginable forces
the soloist to step up and improvise
inside unfamiliar chord changes
rapidly developing
in real time
Sixteenth-Century Portraits
Stationary now
in two dimensions
yet once in full luminous motion
in three,
their laughter and lives
as real and vibrant
as our own
Bionote
Neil Flory is the author of mudtrombones knotted in the spill (Arteidolia Press, 2023). Nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by swifts & slows, Flory’s poetry has also appeared in various other journals such as Superpresent, Sleet, shufPoetry, Down in the Dirt, and Fleas on the Dog. Flory is also a composer of experimental music and a pianist whose enthusiasm for improvisation in live recital settings knows no bounds. He lives among the wooded hills and lakeshores of Western New York State with his wife, published poet and fiction writer Elaine Flory, and their three hyperactive cats.
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