Return with the Flaneur for a deeper survey of the poetic marvelous made accessible through muralist environments created by Hilaire Hiler at the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Diving right in
The surface world recedes
Between the imagination and the greater imagination
Psychedelic avant le mot
Constant metamorphosis
Poseidon's staircase
Predecessor and precedent for Yellow Submarine, Nemo,et al
myriad schools of day-glow fish
Mermaid and menacing clam
a merman (I should turn to be)
a merman (I should turn to be)
Bones of a ancient fish once used as a ship
In corners and interstices,
analogues of the deep sea
The mystery of the submarine mind
Sudden efflorescence
Hiler used metallic paint
subject to flashes
The splendor of the nearest, farthest-away
Pop Surrealist immersion
the profound unconscious
the profound unconscious
in ordinary day light
Tales told by clouds
of fathomless dimensions beneath the sky
beneath the sea
beneath the sea
2.
Permission was granted, the key was turned
I entered the color chamber
I entered the color chamber
Sensations of unfiltered color pulsed
in an optical illusion of motion
I meditated long and hard on abstract color theory
it all stacked up
it all stacked up
I entered a color trance
Synaesthesia came in like a thousand mandolins
Dreams I had as a kid reading Dr Strange comic books
The all-seeing eye of Agamotto
The circular chamber began lifting off
3.
Nobody on the beach seemed to notice
I kept going upward
I landed on a hillside at Fort Mason
and soon fell into a deep sleep
Something woke me up
I left the last of the sunlight on the hill
over the mysterious tunnel
Just enough time left
Last boat departs at eight P.M.
I sailed into a theoretical color field
The Moon, the enchanted bridge,
the sunset lights of the East Bay
calling me toward home
May 2014
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