Along the Edge of Night, Chapters 1 and 2

Sun's out late

demi-nocturnal

postprandial perambulations




1.

The corner curio shop

so recently arrived

Curiouser and  curiouser

The front doors of
The Bookmark

a used bookstore

RAW!
Legendary street person
of Telegraph avenue Berkeley
He's famous for roaring "Raw!"
a few years worse for wear
but still there today

Funny you don't look money

The substation where

Project XO takes place

Around the corner

the gloomy lodging of

 the loneliest man in town,

He stands all day

must lie down at night

His world of fairly

 incessant traffic

leads to an on-ramp




Just down the street
the Police Credit Union

And a police accoutrement shop
a haberdashery of restraint

Mother always said

to come home when

 the streetlights come on

It's already late for the sky

Get a little spook on

Xmas tree in May

window at a lost hotel

In police parlance

the Flaneur might be

called a "peeper"

The whole high rise

at once 

It can be quite

kaleidoscopic

2.

A run to Berkeley Bowl

a round-about bus stop

to return

 
I climbed on a
sidewalk haystack
to get this shot,
the front door opened a tad

Party house

lots of celebration

in June

The old Chevy truck

Over the little park

so long in its

rebuilding

Visible chill

the marine layer

was formidable

May-June 2017

Scenes from A Cold Week in May

de Chirico sunrise

Brisk and often exciting

May is often quite chilly

as flowers arrive

 Sometimes the Flaneur

finds himself awake

at unusual hours

 

On Manila street

a tree I passed by before

was a glorious awakening

when seen in full bloom

Sunday

 

Train tracks

in the cold sunlight

The clouds are really

 themselves

when it's cool out

Wednesday

some warming

A dry garden

New Curio Shop

Ever hear the expression

climbing the bamboo ladder?

Bedraggled and

bespangled

 The world turned

indigo

and there's nothing

we can do

 

It's all gone

de Chirico

Time for me to climb

up to my wee willy

sleeping loft

13-17 May 2017