Mothers Day/Project XO/The Ascension

 

Mothers Day

Project XO

Appliqued

with a Mama Bear

hugging California

 

Got to slide past now

 

Another brush with mortality

Midnight Friday

Had to vomit myself

a rare occurrence

Felt like I'd been poisoned

and my heart rattled all night

Still fibrillated days later

 

Opera House

is diversifying

 

An older African American

was looking at the posters

as I snapped

I remarked,

Imagine if they

were your kids

 

 

I think he said

he wouldn't mind it

if they did

 

 

In Portugal

it's Peixoto Day

Big Fish Day

 

 

Perversely

Patriarchal Romania

converted this

 to Fathers Day

 

 

 

 

2

The Ascension of Our Lord

 

Somehow Jesus got flipped

 

Really the significance of this day

I found myself at a Spanish Mass

at the Cathedral

 

Communion

enfolded me in

His Ascension

 

 

After Mass

all the Mothers were given

a beautiful rose

It was touching

 

You could feel their joy

 

 

 

Hey El Trumpo!

These people are holy

and you are the criminal

 and the rapist

 

They were still

dispensing roses

as I shuffled off

to the elevator

 

Christ is my strength

in my darkest hours

 

 

 

I came home

continuing my recovery

and listened to a cheerful lion

 

 

 

 

13 May 2018

 

 

 

High Brow Berkeley Art Low Down

May on UC Berkeley campus

is an welcome experience

when the sun shines in the cool air

Blood pressure recedes under trees

and art museum are free

Fungible gender study

 A new major

At the old workhorse

prestigious university

Students scurry on

as always

Berkeley,

Berkeley

Fabled Telegraph

the old gray mare

ain't what she

 used to be

Western lands

before the oceanic void

The Bay

 in between

Way Bay

the recherche title

of the current

 really big show

A sweeping out

of the BAM storeroom

Now that conjures up

the Bay area

 art and poetry scene

A Joron comes to mind

A street car film

dangles obliquely

in the exhibition space

Immense macramé

tornado

only more so

When the herb is superb

sometimes my furniture

thinks it looks like this

When I'm home alone

wearing my feather slippers

Lola Montez

x Max Ophuls

and anonymous color

abstracts

A weighty calligraphy

and brushstroke

room of is own

So far East

it's out of space

Taoist meteor

Stanley Kubrick

memorial staircase

Leading downward

toward a house of pain...

and the body

where his face went

I don't know

he may be metamorphic

Another flea market display

with more renowned artists

King of the body

as subject to pain

The throes of

 mind and body

Cruelty is a given

punishment may

or may not follow

Salome

wealth and wickedness

go hand in hand

The Baptist's head

on a platter

Supplication

leads to redemption

from sorrow and sin

We are not the Judges

Cosmic quantum mechanics

 

Bruce Conner film

Crossroads

Atomic mushroom cloud

dissolving into the face

of a refugee

 

 

 

The worthless gamble

endures in the presence

of the Lord

The elevator to the exit

Krishna as

average avatar

all attractive,

said to Arjuna

we must stamp out

the miscreants

The snake charmers

enthrall

snakes charm back

We wait quietly

for the trumpet's sound

the sky turns moire

Ghost paintings

recordings half-erased

taped over and

over again

3 May 2018