Birthday Bay Crossing II: On the Waterfront

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The distance I came

from alien San Francisco

 

 

 

Taking flight on the water  

Steam boat nostalgia
Progress marches on

The Ohlone got the shaft

 

Bringing commodity culture

 

 

Way out on the water

Hot at first but that fateful finger of fog

approaches with refrigerating certainty 

As certain as gulls follow the fishermen

 

 

 

 

Almost under the bridge again

 

 

 

 

 Down here with the pelicans

near Treasure Island, a man-made adjunct

to primordial Yerba Buena

 

And I'm up there with the pelicans

 

 

As wonderful as a kid

spinning on a swivel seat

with a push from a little sister

 

 

 

True to one's nature

for a moment for ever

Relieved of its load a large ship

sails out to sea again

 

 

 Ferry traffic abounds

The Ferry Building clock chimes the half-hours

 In no time it is time for me

to ride out on the boat I rode in on

 

 

 

 

 

The expansive Bay calls

Back the way we came

to disembark again

Part III

Return to the Port

will soon follow

28 July 2021