Birthday Bay Crossing III: Back to Port

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reentry to near space anticipated

in approximately one half-hour 

All systems a-go-go

 

 Had my sun and fun

had my smoke and lunch

chatted with strangers & children

who are never strangers unless

the parents tell them to be

I barely set foot on land but

I can say I was there

After living and working in San Francisco

I am a visitor, occasional entertainer

I always miss it but not as it exists today

Whatever else bohemia is

it is always yesterday

 

 

Time to catch a crabber

and crab walk out of town

 

 

And we're off

Adios San Francisco

I'll be back sooner next time

"San Francisco values"
"Pelosi Country"
"Far-left Socialists"

How we appeared to my remote cam
a half-hour earlier
like a time-shift camera in the Twilight Zone

 Back under the Bay Bridge
bound for the East Bay

 

 

 

 

 

 Never too far away

 

 

 

 The monumental will of mankind

 

 

 

 

 The Day draws away

as all days may

 

 

 

The man-made and the God-made 

collide to coincide 

 

Looking North

a carpet of marine fog

inexorably takes the Bay

 

 

Good old San Francisco
Mean old Frisco

 

 

 

Heading for Port
in elegant silence

So long it's been to know ya

 

 

 

 Patrol boat going the other way

 

 

Entering the inner harbor

 

 

 

Intense looking kid next to me

Ought to  go into modeling

with those eye-brows 

 

 

Part of a local family unit

No ostensible tourists today

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big shipping row

 

 

 

 All business on a weekday

 

 

 

On a scale the Ohlone

builders of graceful shell-mounds

could never have imagined

 

 

 

 

The Navy has had this gargantuan ship

for month's now

 

 

 

 

Right where the Society of the Spectacle

has its latest stadium planned

 

 

 

USS John Glenn

a beacon to all space-adventurers

counting my humble self

A mighty prow
plowing the waves
ever on

Suddenly the familiar

I'm back on the funky streets
of Port side Oakland

A spooky nook

 

 

 

Contemplating a coffee table

Indigo mirror filled with high clouds 

 

Epilogue

 

Upstairs for a birthday brew

on the bonny bonny of Loch Lomond 

Slainte

 

 

 

 

28 July 2021 

 

 

 

 

Immemorial Memorial Day, Part 1

 

Port of Oakland

Ferry Landing

some enchanted evening

Warm out after dinner

hooray!

 

 

I've had some potent

 cookie confection

and I'm awake in wonder

 

Set the twilight reeling

 

The private security creeps

now close this gate

to a sunset respite place

long-enjoyed by all

of a summer evening

 

 

 

So I take an elevator

to the reverse-view windows

the Port building view deck

 

It finally occurred

the nuisance

thieves stole the plaque from

the Japanese peace rock

 

Peaceful and content

nice up here tonight

 

Waters roil evocatively

in the passing of a large boat

 

Splendor of the sunset

the purple violet pink Bay

Twin Peaks tower

towers in the remote

 Really a nice evening

I miss the pre-crowd season for

 San Francisco Ferry excursions

Looking down on the wine bar

balloons in motion out front

A guy appears

unaware he's observed

Walking his curious dog

 

Shuffling off together

A glorious evening

so happy to out

under the open skies

 

San Francisco peeking out

it calls to me

I let it go to voice mail

 

 

A lot of tough guys

out on a warm

 Saturday night

 

 

26 May 2018