Interstitial Oakland

 Thrift shop downtown

Where few remember to look carefully,

endless astonishment

 Tiki candle

Odd decor,

strange fruit

 The banker's lobby,

the doors are closing

please stand clear of the doors

 Surfacing

Lost souls downtown

 Color intrusions,

painted city

 HOW CAN A POOR MAN

STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE?

 Doctor Doom 

seems amused

(on the side of a bus)

Guy with an articulated walk
and a huge Jolly Roger 

on the seat of his pants

There he goes

no doubt

 more in style than I am

 I'm flashing back

to when I was in Nam

and I wasn't even in Nam,

Like Dick Cheney said,

 I had other priorities

 Composition

brush stroke, inflatable,

reflections in urban glass

Toward evening

Crow at the top

of the ceiling sky,

Moon in Gemini

22, 23 May 2016