Herschel Silverman
BRILLIANT CORNERS

for Thelonious Monk

 

GO OMMING TERRESTRIAL
DOWN PLUNKING SPACE
STEEP NOTES  
STEPS   MARKED
TO SHAKES WITH
UNDERGROUND ONE MONK
BIRDLAND OUTTA RADIATION
  MIND  
SIT GOES WONDER
ON BENCH GLOBE-TROTTING LAUNCHED
IN   IN
"BULLPEN" A EINSTEIN
  BRILLIANT PLANTITUDINAL
SEE ASTROLOGICAL TRUE
SAMMY HEART-TRIP BEGINNING
DAVIS TO OF
JR. VENUS SPACE
ENTER DA AGE
WITH SPACE THELONIOUS
BLONE LADY SPHERICAL
BEAUTY CHANGES SPIRITUAL
ON CHANGING WORLD
ARM THEN ROUND
  STRAIGHT ABOUT
ANNOUNCER NO MIDNITE
RESEMBLING CHASERS ALL
PHILIP   HUNG
MORRIS THEN OUT
'JOHNNIE' DOWNTOWN NYC
  EAST BOWERY
THIS VILLAGE 5-SPORT
TO CELEBRATION  
BE LOGICAL HARMONIOUS
SPIRTUAL MILLENNIUM THELONIOUS
ADVENTURE SPHERE  
  THEE  
THELONIOUS LONE  
MONK EE  
HIGH US  
PRIEST   BEGINNING       Uptown Birdland
PREACHING GAS Downtown 5-Spot
PIANO-KEY CONNECTION         Cafe
EXCLAMATIONS INVISIBLE  
HEAVENLY PLANET'S  
FLITES CIRCUITRY  
IN    
SWEET OBLIQUE  
UNIVERSE MUSIC  
HUMMING OF  



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HERSCHEL SILVERMAN
Herschel Silverman is The Candystore Man, subject of sort of a children's bio of his 34 years as owner-operator of the legendary Bayonne NJ candystore, Hersch's Beehive. He's recently been published in Talisman, Long Shot, Gendaishi-Teche, Nada, Blue Beat Jacket, Poesie, and Home Planet News. He was a co-editor of Make Room for Dada and Guest editor of Long Shot #17. Recent published collections include Lift-Off: New & Selected Poems (Water Row Press); The Krishna Poems (Shivastan Press) and Gone Gone Gone Beyond the Beyond (Shivastan Press).