New Year's Lark

Guess where the Flaneur was on a brisk New Year's Day?

 ...Alameda, I knew you knew

 The scintillating flight of a flock of pipers

 They walk single file along the shore

So endearing, like an peanuts cartoon

In an oldtime hometown newspaper

 A key to open my heart

Outdoors in sunshine

I'd brought a little coffee and had a Bhang chocolate,

A Xmas gratuity from the dispensary,

Afterward I had a marine lunch

Tuna salad with Monterey jack on pumpernickel

Fresh carrot, a wee jar of brandy

The coots were wonderful too

Vigorous divers 

Rather amiable for wild bird-life

 Submerged stump near Crown beach

A Green New Year

In the thicket of things

Where I want to be

Christmas at Crab Cove

Then to return to the comforts of human society









 

Deep into the poetry of solitude












Epilogue

1 January 2016
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