Across October

 

 The Great Pumpkin

2016

 Stroll away an afternoon

with the intrepid Flaneur,

an idle mind is a devil

of a workshop

The Flaneur is up here today,

Those are the hills that burned

The legacy of quaint homes

replaced by maximal barnage

This utility water tank

preserves a bit of openness

a habitat for the vulnerable

Doing the stroll

down a placid street

in Elmwood park

Fresh fuschia buds

for Fall

Berkeley flare

and filagree

Color score

my phone cam is using

A good citizen

gets his gourd on

Escape route

Still plenty of flowers

around here in October

wee iris abound

I want to get

all up in there

like a bumble bee

Slowly descending

from these dizzying

Redwood elevations

Into the bowl

of Berkeley

To grow an elephantine pumpkin

you grow a vine that covers an acre,

Then you cut all the pumpkins except one,

All the leaves on all the vines feed it

Lady on the bus
heading for Oakland

Flash car

Telegraph meets Broadway

reopened after a long dormancy

October 2016