Nightwalking Revisited

Always another layer of strata to unpeel

in an urban palimpsest

of noirist thought

With us in spirit

ones who went before



I don't want to live in the park,
Can't trust those shadows after dark

 Welcome,

Open door of a humble church 

across from the homeless park

 In the periphery of vision

something caught my eye

Up next to the moon

 A follower of the sun

like me

 What we see tonight

across the highway bridge

 Shine on,

 you crazy diamond

 Simple design perfection

We may have been 

on this walk before

An idle on Oakland's idyllic past

 A deserted make-believe place

just past the colossus 

of downtown

 The lights are on

but don't bother knocking

They are never home

The tender moon

in all its 

slender splendor

 

Ramadan moon

at the top of the sky

It grows late,

it grows late

Another towering tour bus

stuffed with Chinese

heads into the sunset

 I cross over

into another urban

dimension

 A lovely evening flower

new to me

makes itself known

 The sky in a broken mirror

 A carnivorous theatre

of pseudonymous art

Expressionist

Demi-mondaine,
At intermission
I slipped away

 

 Past a ruin 

of organized religion

the sky gells

 Typographical mountains

 Silver cinder blocks

of clandestine ideation

 

Anonymous

cars race along the speedway,

Landing for an elevated freeway 

Atavism

of primative mysticism

 The words, the alphabet itself

Give way to abstraction

unconscious motivation

 Once the neighborhood

 Roman Catholic church

My friend Chester attended it

 What remains

empty forms

spiritual yearning

 New branding surfaces

for perennial realpolitik,

Those who tythe 

manage to survive

 Closer to home

talking about brand names,

Bob Marley

front a closed-down shop

 But this here is not about

 reggae music per se

Bob Marley Natural

is a brand of cannabis

for the coming stage: 

Legalize it

and he'll 

advertise it

9 June 2016