A Plunge in Crab Cove

 

 Little Laughing Sally

...

After posting image captures the events

 of several weeks ago on Monday

 I felt an urge to return

and to go further than before

 The tide returns me to Crab Cove

 Think I'll get a little large myself

on my own bev-mo of choice

 Does this stuff even exist

anymore?

 So it's back in the cove

High noon and high tide

total immersion this time

 Went in wearing my boxer shorts

then sat in them to dry,

No one comes this far 

when the tide is up

Felt so great, so cheering

something primordial reached,

Wee bit chill for me

so it was fairly in and out

shorebirds line jetty

fixed-wing pelicans come in

standing room only

 The Sea and the stones

a language of their own

 Two great pelicans

toboggan past in tandem

summer olympics

the  receding tide
wavelet passes over rocks

 a summer goes by

Sometimes a hermit

I will admit,

Sometimes a crab

but just a bit

  Pods coming on strong

 California

  a vast jam session of trees

 Neighborhood conspiracy

to make passers-by feel suspect

Ha-ha, crooks drive cars

 I have a new mind

the sea inside

...sleepy now...

There's always refreshment

 A walk on the wild side

Not tonight, Jail-bait

Sugar soda got a sin tax

 

I think I'll
take the first conveyance

homeward

 I'm still a bit at sea

 As sea and sky 

begin to marbleize

 The day began to slant

into the sundown

 Transitional clouds

foreshadow September

Toward  radiance

30 August 2016

A Splash in Crab Cove

Summer means fun

and I'm going to get my share

I asked her why she dressed

with twenty pounds of headlines

stapled to his chest

August 1946

World's first bikini bathing suit,

Named after the Atomic bomb

test at Bikini atol

This lovely French girl 

looks like just my type,

She'd be in her nineties today

 Crab Cove Nature Center

 Here and now

 Look where I'm going

Won't you come with?

 The water's not cold

 No boundary is fixed

on the boundless 

bounding sea

 Out on the rocks

a crane cranes his neck

curious about my bipedal

intrusion

 

 Mystery lurks 

underwater

 There's the other way out

but let's stay in a while,

shall we?

 The money shot

 cue music from Jaws

 Something wicked

this way comes

 Eeeyiiii

 Salt water flying

 through sunlight,

essense of summertime

 Where did it go?

The tide recedes

 gulls fish the shoreline

There is one of these gray dears

I'm so very fond of

A dominant white
considers my
unusual presence

Tonight 

as I fall asleep 

weeds undulate

in the deep

A whirlpool

painted old school

crab claws fasten

my pince nez

  A Descent into the Maelstrom

August 2016

Todaysville (expanded version)

later in the day

All within the last few hours

 commercial lighting

 alienation alley

emo

graffiti foretold

the Fall of Rome

 in the here and now

earlier this afternoon

original work

unknown medium 

outside art

ORIBLE 

Italian Death Metal legends

coming down
back in Oakland

28 August 2016