Mild Winter Weekends

Morning in the Universe

Morning, morning

feel so lonesome

in the morning

 

 

 

 

 

 Saturday

 

Aspiration

Determination

 

 

Rear guard

Openness

 Mask of tragedy

and comedy

at the same time

 

Red chard

Bonzai exhibition

Bonzai riding shotgun

An old-fashioned

All-American

Bonzai show

with tea

Like the lone cypress

of Carmel

or like a figure

drawn by Erte

Beware of entanglements

Swinging

really groovy

Always have
 an exit strategy

Red chard keeps me running

Stay healthy 

eat well

 

 

Saturday

 

 

 

Hot sun today

 fugue state ensues

It's always fun

to spend a day

in Lakeside Park

In January the estuary

tends toward utter

calmness

between storm

Colors awaken

on a bright bright day

So many gulls

clocking out

Me too

An arresting tree

as if recoiling,

curious

Poultry in pastels

underfoot

Used to be country

 round here

Every Saturday

at this parkside café

elaborate fingerings

Rooster sandwich 

 

Sunday

 

Saturday Night's

empties

 

 

Empty Sunday morning

In the petrified forest

new shoots and buds

gothic thoughts

flowers of evil

There's my old friend

Union Machine

Holy shit

need a closer look

Question Mark

and the Mysterian

Free form mural

expressionism

Not a bad one

?How long before

it's gone?

I tasted this strange

liqueur from France

Ghoul and Brainoil

double  A side

Silvered

Ouch

and stroked

Sepruflesh ?

maybe

Dark Funeral

(as opposed to?)

and

Thy Antichrist

not to be confused with

Thee Antichrist

or The Antichrist

or the three Antichrists

 Lily of the West

early baroom buffoons

drank to her name

 

 

Holy shit

this isn't as good

even as it looks here

 

 

Slapdash cartoon

Chinese art

combined with

cheap surrealist

psychedelic clichés

 

 

Gulls keep my
nearly

 constant company

Music and memory

27 January 2018,

 3, 4 February 2018 

 

 

 

 

 

Oakland Outsider

Street surrealist

drive-by

The Berkeley Flaneur

morphs into another avatar

the Oakland Outsider

Viewed askance

by some natives

as a stranger

who gets stranger
by the hour

1.

Wild bird attrition caused

by greedy stupid

architecture

Bird killer

façade

Obstructing the flight path

from the hills and the estuary

to the Bay

It's really just a façade too

a narrow corridor rooms

stacked up to the sky

A drastic fall off

An Escher-like maze

reflective and deadly

for avifauna

Latest casualty

I've also recovered

a hummingbird

who met then same fate

2.

Vehicular manslaughter

Scan your fingerprints

into the Matrix

A Mercedes jeep

how gaudy and absurd

One has little choice

look at Jacko

Ram tough truck

with trailer

Oakland Zoology

The Illuminaries stash

of painting supplies

City-sanctioned muralists

with execrable taste

Hunky Harley-Davidson

looks like a '58 Chevy

from the back

Smoke of the wildfires

colors the sky,

A motorized tall ship

heads out to open water

I'm about ready for

a Tequila sunrise

Theatre of cruelty

of the absurd

Insane clown president

Secretly

hope this potable water

supply will come

to someone's rescue

3.

Children's Fairyland

Exposed

The approach has been in disarray

lots of street construction

The Children's Fairyland

 Adults

accompanied by children

only

Let's see if

I can sneak inside

A book or a screen is one thing,

But the ability to sit and ride on

 Alice in Wonderland characters

Now you're talking

 a kid's language

It's a strange enough place

a patch-work quilt

of a child's imaginings

Rabbit loiters

on his day off

Closed Monday

The live oaks

in their fantastic forms

amplify the fantasy here

like very few other

amusement parks

Little kids love it here--

no scares even on

Halloween

They changed her race

The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe

into a dark-skinned lady

Sort of courts the stereotype--

"so many children

she didn't know what to do"

Slowly gradually

the wildfires are

being contained

We still must endure

the insidious smoke

Let's pretend

It's a happy ending

As they say in

East London

Topiary dragon

did inhale

smoking still

Smokey phantasms

camp followers

of the Northern wildfires

October 2017