Saturday, June 11, 2016

Nightwalking Revisited













Always another layer of strata to unpeel
in an urban palimpsest
of noirist thought




With us in spirit
ones who went before



I don't want to live in the park,
Can't trust those shadows after dark




 Welcome,
Open door of a humble church 
across from the homeless park





 In the periphery of vision
something caught my eye
Up next to the moon






 A follower of the sun
like me




 What we see tonight
across the highway bridge




 Shine on,
 you crazy diamond




 Simple design perfection





We may have been 
on this walk before
An idle on Oakland's idyllic past



 A deserted make-believe place
just past the colossus 
of downtown




 The lights are on
but don't bother knocking
They are never home





The tender moon
in all its 
slender splendor


 

Ramadan moon
at the top of the sky


It grows late,
it grows late





Another towering tour bus
stuffed with Chinese
heads into the sunset


 I cross over
into another urban
dimension


 A lovely evening flower
new to me
makes itself known



 The sky in a broken mirror




 A carnivorous theatre
of pseudonymous art




Expressionist
Demi-mondaine,
At intermission
I slipped away





 

 Past a ruin 
of organized religion
the sky gells






 Typographical mountains



 Silver cinder blocks
of clandestine ideation



 

Anonymous
cars race along the speedway,
Landing for an elevated freeway 






Atavism
of primative mysticism




 The words, the alphabet itself
Give way to abstraction
unconscious motivation




 Once the neighborhood
 Roman Catholic church
My friend Chester attended it




 What remains
empty forms
spiritual yearning




 New branding surfaces
for perennial realpolitik,
Those who tythe 
manage to survive





 Closer to home
talking about brand names,
Bob Marley
front a closed-down shop



 But this here is not about
 reggae music per se
Bob Marley Natural
is a brand of cannabis
for the coming stage: 

Legalize it
and he'll 
advertise it













9 June 2016






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