Monday, May 11, 2015

The White Elephants Graveyard









Reflections on the material world as sculpted by Berkeley Flaneur 















The sculpture department
Substantial, serious,
Bordering on ponderous




Elephantine Eucalypti
Send perception skyward





  Disorienting guide posts, half-hidden








A truly noble redwood
Dead-center in the art school grounds







 Remnants of a forgotten pre-history,
No one today remembers what they represent






 Another cardinal disappears





 No longer of recognizable use, 
It takes on a symbolic, spiritual quality





 Snail thang, I think I love you






  Ambiguous objects lurk about,
Aesthetic or utilitarian?




 Then things start to run amok





Fetishistic professor





 She ate too much fresh sweet corn 
Soiled her pants, I think




 A sunken corner where the lost wash up






A ceramic cemetery





 Billy the Kid,
Your dreamboat ended here?





 Yet another shipwreck






A remarkably creepy ambiance
For the neighbors, by night
No one in the village will come here
At night, after dark







Tainted meat






Figuration, a primal urge







The inevitable scene where the guy next door 
Crawls out of the dirt where he was buried







From soil ye came to soil ye shall return








 Kiss this white ass bye-bye






 View of Oakland 
From a very comfortable couch








 Old building
On a new day in May






 Sculptural color-field






 The old Satyr lasts another Spring






We are all iconoclasts these days,
 Everything's totemic now,





 The campus seems to return to the wild,
But the impression is short-lived






 The formidable Broadway crosswalk,
I recall assisting the fine poet Denise Levertov,
To brave it with me one night after her reading 
The California College of Arts and Crafts











10 May 2015


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