Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The Week of Portents Begins Softly





 
White Peach
 
 
 Blood moon and Mars loom large
Houses of reverse eclipse
with two full moons in the sky
on the Eve of my Leonine
Nativity
 
 
Sea Ray
my nautical soubriquet
had some cannabis chocolate
and is down by the water
Sunday as usual
 
 
70 degrees a cool breeze
and bright hot sun
can't be beat really
 
 
Desultory fair in progress

 
Working that Bach cello
 
 
 
Paddlers tend to go
 far on the current
then have to work hard to return
after they are tired out
 
 

 
Blues Cruise on the Potomac
came in from the Bay
to sail right past my pier
One could hear the quality blues
the whole time

 
It went down the estuary
then turned around

 
And came back
some were waving
drunken sailors by now

 
 Headed back now
into port again as
San Francisco rises
across the peaceful Bay



 
Unusual apparition
en route to the
Jack London Station

 
Tethered and abandoned
waving to passing trains

 
Anchored
by strange blue ballast
 

 
Moving the whole time
an uncanny presense

 
Time is nigh
I must fly, I must fly
 
 
Construction advances
unabated and unrelieved
paint it black, you devils
 

 
The drooping figure
becomes ultra-man
in infra red
 

 
Even the peach
grows in color
intensity
 
 
 
 
Monday evening
 
 
The moon is a doubloon
snow in a spoon
the angry red planet seen
from the angry green
the 3rd eye from the sun
 
 
 



 
Cloud entities assemble
wispy Geiger phantasms

 
A unicorn
with corkscrew horn

 
Symbolist fright wig
memory traces of Redon
 

 
The approach of the blood moon
the world turns incarnadine
 
 

 
Firmament 
 dense with calligraphy
the moving hand writes

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Psychogeography of a Garden Park
















Over the boundary
of the imagination
in into the Park




Unbounded



Off with our heads



A hasty decision



Impossible
 to reverse




Riot of new roses
by the bandstand
a classroom of kids
showed up and sang
along with the teacher






April clouds
and flowering oaks








Mosaic of the Lake's
urban situation






Radical Pizza truck












Mystical rose



A garden formality

Unread plaques
fastened to boulders
Those who contributed,
enough already
don't want a graveyard



April trees

Woodland stretch


 
Then lowland plants
in extraordinary designs



This planet
the only one for us


Everything
life will ever need
Thrilling discoveries



Spring
is always
forthcoming



Going down the corner
want to score
Poppies, yeah






Infra poppy
suggests elsewhere


Orphic morphism


Overwhelming color


Odd and bulbous
something this way comes




An attractive cactus
nearly a plant animal


Coming on strong
heads into the either



My head's wide open




Back out
the way we came



with Poppies
deep inside





27 April 2018








Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Oakland Blues












Piano abandoned


It started on the sidewalk
then began a long
slow stop-motion
animated walk
through the park


Play me the
Oakland Blues
on it


So blue
it has a patina


 So blue
the sky could fall



The birds and I
wouldn't mind



We've been expecting it
all along


Life goes on
exuberantly
until it does


 There was a city-wide strike
going on that day



We were barred
from the inner sanctum
garden plot
(photo shot through fence)



A lone gardener
watering what
cannot do without










A broad leaf
against the fence
turned the silent red
of embarrassment

 










Locked out
and in need of a rest
I sat in the grass






At this point
a gardener appeared
an insider
we exchanged salutations




A girl pulled up
on a bicycle
who had unattended plants
 she worried over


She was restricted
to outside the fence
just as I was

The garden lady
gave her scant attention




You won't see
the serious gardener
in jiggle-bottom drawers





The entire park
is of course
as once was
the entire world





Outside the park
I await transport
home



The strike didn't last long
and eventually
we'll have new level
easy-walking walkways,
And so one withdraws
having had an adventure
nevertheless












December 2018