Maritime Arts Photography, Part Two

4.
The Cobweb Palace

 

 Old Abe Warner seller of scrimshaw
Generously traded sailors liver poison,

Unconsciousness and a possible shang-hai,

For curious works of painstaking folk art

The Republic of Bad Taste

 

Triumph of the Toons

 

 Mesh generation,
Butt's sort of scrunched

Breasts,
 A recognized hallmark of fine art

A perennial motif in popular art,
The "dairy"

James M. Cain's term in Mildred Pierce

 

Reductio ad absurdum:
Tits on a fish






5.

 Amusements from the Vanished World

Let's sing a song of long ago,

when days were green

Our creation myth

 Suddenly Oakland and Berkeley were looking good,

Evacuation from San Francisco 

A periodic mandate

WURLITZER

L.H.O.O.Q.

She looks like she's 3-D

All revved-up and nowhere to go

Mickey Rooney paddles by

The more things change...

The more they stay the same

 5. 

A Drowsy Denouement

 Perhaps something local and traditional,

Scoopy's Bakery is still open

Classy yet funky and quaint eateries abound

Time for this one to pass through

The magical maritime curtain

Pelicans bespeak the dusk

Goodbye to all that frivolity and fun

Subtle bands of light 

Radiate out from the oblique sunset

Bound for the East,

Almost time to cross over

One last stop

In San Francisco

Friday night vibrant, ready to drop

Darkness has fallen

Onto the Port of Oakland

.

Full circle,
scintillating

14 August 2015