Saturday, May 28, 2016

Drive-by 18





Through the stout heart of Oakland
via Martin Luther King, Jr Way


1.
Coming Home

 



Some man's castle
 protecting fence and dog
Next a moat




A palimpsest of graffiti



A gloomy gloaming in Spring




A ghost town welcome




Greyhound Bus Station where
Allen Ginsberg worked in the 1950s,
"Baggage Room at Greyhound" was
 included in HOWL & Other Poems


Today it's an environment
of total surveillance,
Cameras, microphones,
gunshot detectors




Cannabis helps everyone
Grin and bear it



 2.
You're running
You're running
You're running Away



Interesting looking lady
wonder if she's African






 We're waiting for buses
at the transit hub



 Her cowl holds her smart tablet
no hands needed




Here's my ride
the #18 bus


Another colorful lady
gets on board




 She twigged
I was taking a shot but
doesn't seem to mind





Automobiles
uber alles




Unusual puddles
We had a flash shower
this April morning



Semi-liberated zone



Marcus Books
Black struggle
specialists




Near MacArthur BART station
Human storage units
renting soon








Advertisement for The Jungle Book
on the side of the bus


April 2016

Friday, May 27, 2016

Peace Talk





 Mazel tov





 To Avigador Lieberman,
former Moldovian
nightclub bouncer,
new Defense Minister
of our most important ally 
in the Middle East




Neo Berkeley





 

 'LECTRIC
WASHOUSE
for the mind and body,
 Heading into town





An astrological forecast suggested I keep the hell I know
rather than try for the heaven I don't know







 Berkeley where travellers
with guitars arrive daily
even today


 UC steadily transforms
into a vast cash register
of student debt




 Stadium
Events there this weekend
baking in the sun


Yet another Buddhist gallery
Reflecting opulence and
perhaps subtle hegemony





 Glad I have ear plugs
In my ignorant opinion
Chinese have no conception
of music



 Some things Chinese people
 understand exceptionally well





 Surfacing



 


 New campus sports field
Almost too nice to trod on







Berkeley Tool Library




Bird Neighbors



24, 26 May 2016



Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Flower Walking in the Maytime








 Outside Fairyland


It's gray and chilly on the Bay today
like the blossoms themselves
Sunday's meditations stored up some sunshine





 A child's garden



 Everyday wonders to behold






 Bowling Green


 The old men have been
 lawn-bowling here
for a long long time





 It shows in the whorls
and lines of their faces



 The inevitable toll
of time and the weather


 It shows in lines
of grim determination



May
Skill and perhaps wisdom accrue
no matter what you do




 Azalea Bonzai
show



 Characterized by blossoms
of different color
on the same stunted tree



 Striking white lobe
of fleshy blossoms



This one as ordered
and ceremonial
as a wedding cake




 Approximate colors
are all I can capture
under florescent lights


This one's hues
come close to actuality


 Still beautiful
if only a portion


 They had tea and Japanese crackers
Providing a nice buzz for this busy bee
to continue on his way






 Garden 
Color Quest





Electric magenta



 Red and blue,
A guy slowly twirling
S-shaped blades 
under dramatic clouds
as his girlfriend filmed him




 Green myriad



 Purple blossom



Yellow sunburst
to say good-bye





22 May 2016