New Week

Remember, 

Life is as close to Hell

as you can be

until you get there

 Beer with citrus in it

Non pour moi

 Faux-hawk brew

 We're still getting

wee showers of rain

keeping it green

 Portrait of a bongo drum

Sausage sellers

in Swan's market 

rock this neon sign

 2.

Wednesday

Rolling mind

 Into the park

 Children take to the trees

as if by instinct

 Profound colors of poppies

 some almost black,

I fight the nod

 

 To proceed

Deep into the garden

 To spend a quite hour

by a waterfall

 Look who just flew in

 A gorgeous 

Blue Night Heron

 He stayed quite a while 

drinking in the shade

Then flew up over the pond

See him over the green bush 

to the left of the falls

 There he goes 

over the papyrus

 There he goes

 There he went

 Such tender colors

I could linger in rhapsody

 Yet the clock says it's time to go

 Football, Coke, cars and trucks,

Religion and business

await

 3.

Thursday

Cinco de Mayo

 Celebration on Center street

 At Berkeley City College

 Dancing in the street

Some free or cheap eats

Music and smiles

to chase away the clouds

 We're international, baby

Coke truck in front

of Berkeley Library,

Mexican Coke is better

with sugar not corn syrup

3-5 May 2016