Holiday Outings

Autumn becomes us

At 5:00 on Friday evening

the radio stated:

the holidays begin now,

Who am I to disagree

1.

Saturday

Café on Broadway

happy Saturday

going by

Tic-Tack-Toe sky

and new mural drive by

Geometrical ciphers

I'll take center square

to win

Picturesque Oakland

The latest mural

through a rain-stained

window

The money shot

a clean section of glass

post-modernized by

a window decal

Back in my old neighborhood

window-shopping

Mary Poppins style

There's that poodle shirt I like

Celtic music on the radio

The Thistle and Shamrock

soul-satisfying in the Fall

Mellow skies

after an early sunset

a dreamy evening's journey

through the dark of night

2.

Sunday morning

It's just some streets you crossed

not so long ago

I'm out early to get a bottle

of holiday spirits before

the hoards showed up,

lots of others had the same idea

Refractions 

in an autumn morning

A saint may be lurking

he knows when you're sleeping

No not these

"noir-vember"

lawyers

Morning, morning

here comes Nicholas

The streets retreat

from the night's

delirium

A frame for the

instinctual

sur-rational

The window

illuminates

my study

The fish of the sea

Put on their Winter coats

warm coloration

for the mutating sea

Water

water

cool clear water

and some glass to contain it

A whole world

may be discerned

 therein

Classic

Project XO

installation

Wonder if I could be

accused of illegal dumping

be arrested for art

That's why

I never leave home

With gloves

a hand-painted umbrella

and a Public Defender

Elevator to the Port

Like a reckoning

when the doors open

I work outdoors

The mists of November

the veil of Maya

The whole world

in his hands

Fountains

turn me on

Show-off cars

amuse me

A McClaren

A spooky tooth

19 November 2017