May on UC Berkeley campus
is an welcome experience
when the sun shines in the cool air
Blood pressure recedes under trees
and art museum are free
Fungible gender study
A new major
At the old workhorse
prestigious university
Students scurry on
as always
Berkeley,
Berkeley
Fabled Telegraph
the old gray mare
ain't what she
used to be
Western lands
before the oceanic void
The Bay
in between
Way Bay
the recherche title
of the current
really big show
A sweeping out
of the BAM storeroom
Now that conjures up
the Bay area
art and poetry scene
A Joron comes to mind
A street car film
dangles obliquely
in the exhibition space
Immense macramé
tornado
only more so
When the herb is superb
sometimes my furniture
thinks it looks like this
When I'm home alone
wearing my feather slippers
Lola Montez
x Max Ophuls
and anonymous color
abstracts
A weighty calligraphy
and brushstroke
room of is own
So far East
it's out of space
Taoist meteor
Stanley Kubrick
memorial staircase
Leading downward
toward a house of pain...
and the body
where his face went
I don't know
he may be metamorphic
Another flea market display
with more renowned artists
King of the body
as subject to pain
The throes of
mind and body
Cruelty is a given
punishment may
or may not follow
Salome
wealth and wickedness
go hand in hand
The Baptist's head
on a platter
Supplication
leads to redemption
from sorrow and sin
We are not the Judges
Cosmic quantum mechanics
Bruce Conner film
Crossroads
Atomic mushroom cloud
dissolving into the face
of a refugee
The worthless gamble
endures in the presence
of the Lord
The elevator to the exit
Krishna as
average avatar
all attractive,
said to Arjuna
we must stamp out
the miscreants
The snake charmers
enthrall
snakes charm back
We wait quietly
for the trumpet's sound
the sky turns moire
Ghost paintings
recordings half-erased
taped over and
over again
3 May 2018
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