Rainy Days in Lakeside Park

It's lightly raining

 essential Springtime sensation

flowers enjoy us

1.

So early in the Spring

 Color fix

 Silly geese 

They don't care about me

 See you later

Goosey gander

 Revelations of my own

To stalk and devour

In a wet wood

in the midst of the world

 Civilizations come to be

and then they're gone

Closed today

garden of the stunted trees

Mask of  Patriarchy

 Oasis shelter from the rain

 We dedicate all 

our unruly demonstrations

 to fearless Frank Ogawa

 

 Nobody else visiting 

under a gentle shower,

A feeling I'm not alone

 A cat was watching

 The psychedelic flora

of visionary California

 I sat here in mindfulnesss too

but you know,
you can skip the plaque 

 Not asparagus

 Kid trap

 Elephantine tree

 When you think of him

or just say a prayer here

Saint Francis is with you

 

 Ducky couple

Digging the verdant fertility

 On the lawn outside

of the Children's Fairyland,

She's eating for offspring,

He stands guard

 Genius reduced 

to commercial cliche

Poor Rene Magritte

March 2016

 2.

Easter April Showers

 The lawn so green

When the red red robin

Come a-bobbin along

 Dark in the park today

 I retreat inwardly

Into the Sensory Garden

 Maybe meditate a little

on the black hole at the center

of the Milky Way

 Representing Oakland 

twisty, pebbly,

lubricious

 I  am as the waterfowl

undaunted by precipitation

 Edenic

  quiet moments
of inner growth

 The garden's far boundary

 I turn back,

I turn back,

Full of the sensory garden

 A tree blobs

Over the sidewalk

How it all gets started,

Insurgent natural world

9 April 2016