New Year's Beach, Part 3 Consolidation

Transit

 substantiation

The sky

caramelized

I  came to an epiphany

then Iwas traveling through

pastel buildings

The metaphysical loneliness

of the Sunset district

at twilight

Then oddly

the MUNI train driver

announced we must exit

and wait for a following car

he was done for the day

In my aesthetisized state

every moments counts

must count

A story book window

Christmas

never goes out of style,

Multitudes are swept

by pre-Xmas commercial con

yet now is the poignancy

of the Yule

My unexpected foot traffic

led me to witness

all wonderous things

On the way in I added

a glorious Catholic church

I have passed by many times

to my fleeting goals in life

Now happenstance

 and a determined walk

up two hills puts it

directly on my path ahead

The beauty

of San Francisco

The transience of the world

held back a moment by faith




Doorway
of the Rectory

Do ye think

it is Irish?

A Wedgewoodesque vision

of the Communion of the Saints

for everyone's uplift

Regard the life of the holy

Portal of a sacred space

Attend Mass

and make sacred your own

Every moment in time
in a frieze

in eternity

Generations of San Franciscans

going in to Sunday Mass,

to receive the Sacraments,

to marriages and funerals

prayer and song

My formation imagined

for me in vivid California

Last shot

see the street car a-coming

People get ready

In short minutes

The Super moon

is rising to the East

To commemorate my last

encounter

in San Francisco

An androgynous

 perception

of sainthood

A Saint
miraculous
 crepuscular

Forgetting myself

I felt like another person

was there was me

How joyous our awakening

within the sorrows of life

The streetcar pours me toward

Civic Center

bemused by other tired children

Then the first BART train fast,

But I must transfer in West Oakland

where there the Supermoon

waits for no one

Behind my eyelids

The Super moon

 the train station

early New Year darkness

envelopes all the bay

deepening off the coast

1 January 2018

Hack Temple

This inspiring former Catholic church

has found a new owner

a Russian oligarchic "investor"

is opening a tech center here

to be called Hack Temple

Could there be any more

apparent manifestation

of Trump America in decline?

Instead of an uplifting place

of renewal and inspiration,

Russian science fiction hackers

will call it home

as they undermine US elections

and commit corporate espionage

And the traitors and enablers

in Congress cast doubt

on climate change,

Russian election hacking,

and the utterly corrupt

gangsters in the White House

He finds it offensive

that the venture capitalists

he throws in with

always ask him

"Is this money clean?"

Look at that watch

shakes hands with you takes a DNA sample

measures biometrics,

videotapes and records you

while employing lie detection software

October -November 2017