Coyote howl mosaic
It would be a larger than usual day
I'll take you there
Like so many adventures
it began on a BART train
MacArthur station
1.
North Berkeley
A familiar hike
To keep open my cosmic eye
Along the Ohlone pathway
A dell of yellow and green
A stealthy flock of birds unseen
Rose into the canopy in an instant
Another lovely community garden
Iris and chard
The Spanish tormenting cattle
Years and years ago,
Before the coming of vegetarianism
Color patterns grab my attention
Primitive expressions
Talismans and signs
the potted past
People enjoy walking
Along the pathway
BART trains
Rumble by overhead
The idyllic bay provides
It's euphoric inhabitants
A timeless way of life
The Europeans brought rectangles
Trains and trollies
Gridmap cities that run on time
A slightly rainy
Somewhat windy day
in almost Spring
The succulents are swollen
With rain water enough
Another year commenses
With a riotous surge
Symbolism brut
The double cross
And new this year, murals
Catchy kitsch to catch the trains
The idle eyeballs at rest
I image-captured this last year
A blank stucco then
Not up to me
The way it is now
The far point
An honorable new bench
I pulled over here for a seedy bagel
Time to return along the BART path
A light rain constantly refreshing
The green vitality
A dynamo of fragrance
Just coming on
An altered state of mind
Where the jury is still out
2.
Commodification:
Central Berkeley
Product placement
location is everything
LED screen
at BAM/PFA
Representations,
The well-connected
Our Man in Havana
This year I've been on
a Graham Green kick myself
Colorful Africans,
Patterns of culture
I'm of two minds about it though
On "Community" opening day
There seemed to be on-going
video (or whatever) artworks
Now it's non-stop promotion
Jack and Jackie
A wedding-cake of nostalgia
A marriage made for the Matrix
Speaking of presidents,
Bernard Sanders
Circumcised socialist
When in Berkeley
Do as Berkeley do
There's the old Kresse five-and-ten
I know I date myself,
It's what the lonely boys do
Meantime the building itself
Fades into a previous century
3.
Creatures of the Nightlife:
Return to Oakland
Fox girl on the bus
The Animal Kingdom
An atavistic atttraction
By digital trivia unfulfilled
Maybe the Dealer
Will shuffle-up
A new deck of cards
Always last night
I went to see VVITCH
In my neck of the woods
Gently overwhelming me
On my way to different dreams
Automotive nightmare
Outside the Coroner's office
Across the street
Piglet on the side
of a vegan van
A sinister asteroid
Parked as it was
It's a noir, noir, noir
world
4.
In conclusion
As for these war criminals,
The jury has reached its verdict
Commodification:
Central Berkeley
Product placement
location is everything
LED screen
at BAM/PFA
Representations,
The well-connected
Our Man in Havana
This year I've been on
a Graham Green kick myself
Colorful Africans,
Patterns of culture
I'm of two minds about it though
On "Community" opening day
There seemed to be on-going
video (or whatever) artworks
Now it's non-stop promotion
Jack and Jackie
A wedding-cake of nostalgia
A marriage made for the Matrix
Speaking of presidents,
Bernard Sanders
Circumcised socialist
When in Berkeley
Do as Berkeley do
There's the old Kresse five-and-ten
I know I date myself,
It's what the lonely boys do
Meantime the building itself
Fades into a previous century
3.
Creatures of the Nightlife:
Return to Oakland
Fox girl on the bus
The Animal Kingdom
An atavistic atttraction
By digital trivia unfulfilled
Maybe the Dealer
Will shuffle-up
A new deck of cards
Always last night
I went to see VVITCH
In my neck of the woods
Gently overwhelming me
On my way to different dreams
Automotive nightmare
Outside the Coroner's office
Across the street
Piglet on the side
of a vegan van
A sinister asteroid
Parked as it was
It's a noir, noir, noir
world
4.
In conclusion
As for these war criminals,
The jury has reached its verdict
8 March 2016
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