In the Garden

Laurie over in the Garden suggested we write a poem about bottleneck.  She was inspired by a poem written by Peggy Goetz.   There are several definitions, but I went with this one:

Here's the definition of bottleneck, according to Webster's New World College Dictionary (© 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio)-

(noun)

1. the neck of a bottle
2. any place, as a narrow road, where traffic is slowed up or halted
3. any point at which movement or progress is slowed up because much must be funneled through it: a bottleneck in production

(adjective)

designating or of a style of playing blues guitar in which notes and chords are formed by stopping a string or strings with a broken-off glass bottleneck, knife blade, etc. (read the interesting history behind this instrument/music here)

(transitive verb)

to act as a bottleneck in

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Variations might include bottlenecking, bottlenecked, bottlenecks.

When I saw the blues guitar mentioned I went to YOUTUBE and found this video.

I decided to go in this direction!   The tone is haunting in this arrangement. Are you familiar with  bottlenecking?  I thought halted traffic sometimes was the case of rubbernecking?!   You know hanging your head out the window, to see what the hold up is or staring at a vehicle off the road, etc.

Blue notes slide

along life's tracks

mirroring mood 

waiting n' watching for

black snake-coal train

dim your eyeballs

the cow cage arrives instead

cabbage locals love the cow cage

music of the pistons firing

the heat kink

lashes up

watch for Wilma's eyeballs

 listen to the gritty soul

 of steal strung along the

latitudes and limitations

of history's muse

subject to

luminous tones

fretting away

tonal resonance

road map's culture

will not fret away

start the blues in A

F#,C# and G#

tap your foot and 

connect your thumb

let the tone ring

watch the turnaround

and double stops