Miscellaneous Scenes of Summer

 

 

RAY's stoned vacation

 

 

The roof of 

the Morcam Rose garden

 

 

 Black tea and lime juice

 

 

Here comes my ride

 

On the Oakland Ferry

 

 

New sports facility

on UC campus

empty while I go by

 

 

 

The Fitzgerald

 

 

Ancient Oakland café

now a hipster bar

 

White peach perfection

with O% Greek yoghurt

and honey

 

 

 

 

Summer 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

Summer Pleasures, Summer Bummers

 

 

When the Summer is resplendent

I'm out of doors

time spent indoors

is almost always wasted

 

Every day is comfortably on the cool side

with plenty of afternoon sunshine

then we are subsumed by the

Ever present marine influence

of prehistoric sea fog

 

 

Time to stock up on Cannabis

 

 

Yosemite in July light

 

First I require a transfusion

of cash to hit the little shop

 

 

Sweet and Sour Kush (Sativa)

 

The arrogant narcissists

everyone hated in high school

get elected to office

and get drunk on a shot of authority

can't restrain themselves from making

onerous oppressive absurd rules

for careful thoughtful herb lovers

 

Latest perverse kick

was to impose non see-through

difficult to open packages

any kid could open with sissors

 

A small amount of alcohol

can kill a kid but they

don't require child-proof caps on booze

 

Lovely buds though

 

Moonstone Kush

(Indica dominant hybrid)

You can see the purple

 

 

Seal Rocks in July

 

My bad bank won't miss

the funds I withdrew,

1920 California architecture

 

 

 

Pricey ice cream place

right across the street

has a perpetual line

But as I mention

I have other gratification in mind

 

 

 

Trump Baby Blimp

Bring me his head

Embarrassing and betraying us

to make America great again

 

 

The 12 bus was no-show

So I hopped another bus

and walked the remainder

 

America, I smoke marijuana

every chance I get

 

 

1956

The year Howl was published

including a poem by Allen Ginsberg

written about his job 

at the Oakland Greyhound station

a short distance from here

in an America a long way gone

 

 

I find myself

on an unusual embankment

a blank canvas

for mental action painting

 

On an agreeable Summer's day

 

Sunbathing with Fido

I wanted to get her

remarkably bright tattoos

but she flopped over

 

 

As a butterfly

as an opalescent bee

I am drawn to deep colors

 

Yikes! a repurposed

Oakland police car

 

Skull-headed ghosts of cops

were off elsewhere

 

 

 Another car

 

 

Another denizen

of Oakland

 

Enchanting flowering shade tree

I don't hesitate to go and sit under

 

 

 

 

 

I'm in a florid state

of efflorescence today

Had Canna-chocolate too

 

 

 

 

A young Mother walked her baby past

the bench where I sat

I was peaking and very smiley,

He smiled back the most beautiful smile

No pain no baggage...it did my old heart good

I told her so and I tried a photo

 but the Phone-cam storage was over-full

I can still see him with my eyes closed

 

To let go of one's

day-to-day concerns,

an invariably healing thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attended a thriller the other night

Violent Mexican border

US hegemony porn perhaps

But I stayed riveted throughout

 

 

 

It was well after midnight

when my late show got out

not only was the street deserted

but so was the entire theater

 including employees

 

A few blocks on

a silent shadow

appeared next to me

on the sidewalk,

I startled and the guy apologized

 

We walked and talked a little

a black street guy

with a twisted leg

 

In front of the men's shelter

sleeping bags with sleepers in them

too late for inclusion

 

Count my blessings including 

home comfort 

 

 

Excellent white peach

yoghurt and honey,

I don't like white flour

or most white rice

But I dig white corn

and white peaches the most

 

 

July 2018