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HERE

Niche Berkeley

Orthodox rocks

 All religions are one

 

 Spooky action at a distance

 

Botanica

Some trepidation

Safe European home

Backyard of a church

Stringed instrument

exchange
Guitar outdoors
 in the cruel wind and the rain

Sinewy cypress still

bend traffic at their will

A tree stands naked

Ringo's bedroom window

Trees along the home front

 There

 Enchanted Oakland

 Star wars duck bill
with an attitude

 

 Found another Elf installed

near Washington street

So wee it was hard to get down

Its an Elven town

 really

WE DO WHAT WE WANT

Hydrangea change colors

in front of your eyes

Signs &Graffiti

 Prohibited

strictly prosecuted

police car alongside

I'm here on postal business

June is busting out

all over

Think I'll head down to

Lakeside park

Sunny in the sun

 a little cool in the shade

A dappled mottled landscape

sparsely attended

 The yin and yang

of light and shade

Mammalian life

Shelters in the trees,

From the relentless march 

of glass and steel

Recurrent intersection

along ley lines

 When we have wings 

 we can fly

 Shimmy into Fairyland

without a ticket

 Always some pleasant imagery

to foster cheer,

Disney-world

 What we look out on

 Pulling a rabbit 

out of a hat

Ain't what it was

 Cast the stones against the mirror

Heavy karma comes back clearer

 HERE

Banking business 

in Berkeley

 

Discrete charms of the Bourgeoisie

1-4 June 2016