Not Dark Yet

But it's getting there

The edge of night

the year passes palpably

when I go out after dinner

with my coffee in a paper cup

and it's a race with

 the falling darkness

Bear necessities of life

but you can't just

cocoon at home

You got to go out

parading

as Paul's uncle said

After office hours,

down to the sea

in stained glass ships

The Port

not heavily lit up

as evening subsides

Cold wooly clouds

over Alameda

Big changes

in atmospheric conditions

lessens fire danger

Clean air at last

what a blessing

The will to live

revives itself

The thrill of the elements

This change of temperature

reinvigorates us zombies

after a weird six weeks

of warmer than usual

followed by fire

 

Tonight I feel as if

harmony has been restored,

now to scurry home

and warm up a bit

18 October 2017

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

Along the Edge of Night, Chapter 3 and 4

Why stay in
when it all happens
out of doors?

3.

Another night's prowl

Retagged

after recent

paint-over

Soulful Solitude

by the RELIEF ship

That time of year

again

4.

Entertainment

Event horizon

Pretty boy
This year's model


Wow

MOM

No movies for old men

Unless they are

acting in them

 

The horror of life

and its double

The evening

descends into

darkness

Back through
the mirror's portal

Circling home

past the curio shop

May-June 2017