Dear Joe:

I thought about writing it to you in my first post on this thread: that you got to be listening to music when you paint! But it skipped my mind then.

Only this morning, quite amazing, Joe: you are very creative and your imagery flows so nicely, like music. There was a whole melody to your poem.

As far as hearing colors: it is definitely neural connections. Everything is neural connections. It is a connection you have that others (including your mother, hence she didn’t understand) does not have. I suppose it is a …gift of sorts, a gift in that only a few people have it, have these neural connections between colors and music, like you do.

“Other songs made him hear shapes, faces,
And faraway places.
Diamonds and crystals
Disembodied spirits, staying afloat on ethereal watercolours of blue and green..”

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!

anita