Winter Lights In Golden Gate Park

Tree-Lighting

7 December 2017

The annual event augented this year

by a fantastic light show

projected from within

the Conservatory of Flowers

And a Winter Carnival midway

through the pitch black

and chilly park

Where Haight Ashbury

meets the Park

Xmas fantasia abound

New Years babies

fill the void

left by the departed

All about the high life

for the affluent

Stanyon Street

and other sorrows

Tour buses still point out

hippie stragglers

The big trees

of Golden Gate Park

a storybook experience

every time

Actually down

with a sharp cold but

I don't want to stay home

and be all hang dog,

Events happen once

Tired of waiting

A fire truck showed up

with lights flashing

and Santa Claus got out

 I slid into the mid-way

Snow

in Golden Gate Park!

Santa's Little Helper

can't see me

outside his plastic tent

A strange classroom

under the night sky

 On to the Conservatory

of Flowers

I rested alone

sitting on a fallen tree

out behind it for a half hour

 A stage appeared out of the

cold darkness

of interstellar space

Just then the Conservatory

came to life

with accompanying ambient music

welling from the stage behind me

adding to the other-worldy effect

I had to get close

Like a Wedgewood figment

of my imagination

Moody blue

hallucinogenic

 threshold

A molten colored house

for the Flower Children

50 years after

the Summer of Love

I think I was peaking

right about now

The kids seem to revert

to an atavistic choreography

it got more and more unreal

I surrendered to the dream

and lost my ability

in the darkness

to capture anymore images

The tree is lit

what an installation

what an environment

Wow

I wish I had cannabis chocolate

for everyone

Santa hat High School band

a romantic scenario perhaps

Everybody is in

an altered state

of consciousness

A fast Fulton street bus

and I'm down at the Civic Center

Outside the Asian museum

An arresting visage indeed

The usual Taiko squad

to split your eardrums

A Blue Meanie Leviathan

eye candy in excelsis

City Hall certainly

had it's red white and blue

balls out too

Mayor Lee

we hardly knew ye

7 December 2017