Paula Hackett writes

Teddy's L.A. After Dark

 

Come to life
On this changing scene
Here's your part
Live your wildest dreams
Night arrives
just to celebrate
It happens here
in L.A.
After dark

From the beach 

to the mountainside 

L.A. streets 

take you for a ride 

Hollywood 

Central Avenue 

It happens here 

in L.A. 

After dark 

Daylight steps aside and

Lets the city lights start to glow 

Play out your part as the night 

Puts on a show 

Happy now 

See the dawn arise 

Just for you 

Cross the morning skies 

Don't forget 

Night will soon return 

It's here for you 

in L.A. 

After dark

Central Ave. Saxophone Market

Paula Hackett writes

Enter Into the Earth

Enter into the earth again

The middle of rhythm 

A pounding sound 

In the back of life  

It keeps me alive 

Almost a feeling

A whisper of memory 

A thought somewhere 

In a mind that 

Has no substance  

A rite of fancy   

A clinging right                 
To exist beyond hope.

Hazy Memory -- Ashar       

Paula Hackett writes

Steel on Steel

There is a sound when your voice grabs my voice,
when your words twist inside my body,
when my words scream to escape.
On the other side of sound, there is motion.
When your body slides into my body
and my body can outsmart you.
Can throw you into space with one unexpected turn
and then enjoy the wreckage we created.
But then your voice returns
like screeching steel.
And I remember as a child,
I would wait on the railroad tracks
until the conductor panicked.

Finding My Way -- Kim Novak