Indigenous Mexican Columbus Day

OCTOBER

be a gathering

Come along
Little Faun

Down by the old wigwam

Get your dance ceremony

threads together

Raiments of every stripe

raiments of a thousand storms

 

it's all in the dance

Here the dancers come

I would be like this young man

were I his age 

and join the circle

One dance

all people

 2.

Sunday

I was down the same way

the very next day

  The house that Buddhadharma built

 

 The United States Post Office

 Berkeley California

 Down at Civic Center park

 More festivity

  locally grown

and in season

 A ballroom dance party

South of the border style

 

 Bench with vintage Xmas toys

nothing's odd any more

Fanciful hats 

for women and children

 Recorded music was being played

as a band was setting up

 

I cut a few steps my self

then made for the trail

 I had other fish to fry

 I didn't even get to see

the traditional girls dance

 Sidewalk stencil

designates Jerry Garcia

also locally grown

 Goes to make you proud

Europeans discovered this place

 A nearby knot of cloud

caught my eye

 I leaned out to look

as evening was coming on

like a slow-acting drug

 A day

 a jewel stone

 3.

Hey ho, 

Christopher Columbus 

Day

 

 It was off to Alameda again

From this point

you can see San Francisco

in an envelope of chilly air

 The beach was sun-drenched 

but the breeze pestered one a bit,

 Drowsed in a make-shift shelter

an enormous tree stump

 I'm moving to Alameda

for my retirement

Berkeley sidewalks 

are a war zone

 Pumpkin patch abstract

8, 9, 10 October 2016