Friday, September 14, 2018

Short poems on a page

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An ephemeral world
 
 
 
 
 
1.
 
from a slow window
Tamalpais glimpsed afar
there a spilt second
 
 
2.
 
clouds down lonely fourth
statin magenta hourglass
could it be enough
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Notes of Woe
 
 
Old Oakland so quiet
tonight it hosts a riot
unlocked and loaded
parlous hip hop hiccup
full volume of alcohol
curvy broads in the parking lot
hipster let an oldster
pass in peace
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gone in the Morning
 
a tree fell on my bed
I slept on instead
now rain collects
in the dent it left
right side of my head
 
 
 
to extract blood from a stone
survive on perception alone
 
 
 
no one can save you
 from yourself
you just go on
and hope for the best
 
rather a farrago  than a drudge
 
 
those are all the wrong precepts
the right ones grow on trees
 
no one is there to meet you
when you arrive
at the end of the line
 
 
 
 
 
On BART train
to San Francisco
 
I have to hold on now
the girl in front of me
swept my hand with her hair
testing camel hair
 paintbrush #9
 
(slim tall attractive young
third generation Asian)
 
residual unconscious response
 
 
 
Hazy Forecast
 
particulate matter
past participles dangle
in the unswept sky
 
 
 
 
 
End of Summer
 
Vigil on the lawn
two hours too early
for the library at noon
 morning smoke out
as time passes
 
Ducks
 and their reflections
fly through the estuary
in perfect calm
 
splashdown
obliterates
the bifurcation
 
 
a breeze picks up
contrast patterns
appear on the surface
 
wide wingspan
one high-glider
turns slow circles
 
I see the atomic
level of perception
surround him in the sky
visible invisible
optical template
 
don't see him
when he disappears
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 






 September 2018










 
refracted reality
















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