The East Bay Idler
Pink Moon Quest
Trees in Downtown Berkeley Park
on a crystalline day
So central and busy
for much of my history in Berkeley
Today it seemed like a forlorn island
where a few lost souls take refuge
Berkeley high school let out
and things livened a bit
skateboards echoed through the park
Down the Campus Pathway
The landscape is more becoming
with less gardening going on
A perfect spot for an idle at 4:20
The air is cool but the sun is strong
and the wind is deflected
Down through campus
familiar sights steaming away
Despite everything so
irreversibly altered in the past few years
Old arboreal acquaintances
Among the oakwood trees
people are still rather scarce
Iranian restaurant window
glass globe arabesque
Orderly Chinese internet cafe
Predominant social life in Berkeley
in the 2020s
Score!
Everyone is happy
Everyone is laughing
Pink Moon Indica 31% thc
from Seth Rogen's operation
Just in time for the 50th anniversary
of the release of Nick Drake's album
Pink Moon
Tiger balming
Doorway in Chinatown
Make-shift cartoons on riot boards
with a New Year good luck packet attached
Inscrutable
Enigmatic vacant lot in Chinatown
No campers ever breach the cyclone fence
Never offered for sale
I'd like to visit its hermetic tranquillity
Formerly rumored to have been
a nefarious cop bar
Admirable building actually
with blood on the floor perhaps
Maybe is just an ordinary place these days
End point is as usual
The Estuary
Back sail & odd new yellow building
on the Alameda side
& tat bizarre tank-like structure
Cold weather came next day
Afro-gallery
In memory of
Betty Davis
Muse of Miles
Voodoo Mouse
Ummagumma
First they came for Basquiat
Look out, Jasper Johns!
Year of the Tiger
every Chinese person
needs to be one these days
in this fierce locale
No takers at the picnic table this chilly day
a welcome smoke spot nonetheless--
sunshine and little wind
It's good old Old Oakland
in late Winter
Shadows of bare trees
on 8th Street
Solitude & mindfullness
on my afternoon walk
Nothing scares me
I live in West Oakland
(barely West Oakland)
Ye old matchstick pile
disappeared over New Year
So as industrial as ever
I resume building my mound
They say,
get rich or die tryin
I opted out
Down here again
dressed for chilly weather
Mount Tamalpais
ever thus
Shadows lengthen
on the Ferry Landing lawn
the urge for going
makes itself felt
Network of trees and shadows
I move within
TOKYO!
I'm guessing
Bookstore window in passing
always on the road
always on the road
Cold all week
hail stones even
snow on the elevations
hail stones even
snow on the elevations
February 2022
