February
each day is Valentine's Day
He was up late last night
digging a purple moon
He celebrates
Ground Hog Day
tomorrow
From BART to my coffee shop
Super duper game this week
who cares ?
Homey don't play that
Berkeley college on Center street
I find myself indoors again
Chance encounter
with a Black History month
celebration
Puzzling evidence
from a buried history
How Berkeley sees itself
Some exhilaration
approaches in the stairwell
Drumming masters
Polyrhythms reverberated
throughout
uniting for a moment
our local community
They didn't play for long
but it was sheer uplift
There was great pizza,
nuts and fruits
and cutie tangerines
After a doctor's appointment
travel by public bus,
a quiet and poignant
traditional African-American
neighborhood to Oakland
The sky held
intimations of
Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
February's strange auguries
1 February 2018
