La Toussaint/Le Jour des Morts

 

 

 

La Toussaint 

 Le Jour des Morts

 

 

 

I will know my Savior when I come to Him

By the marks were the nails have been

 

Virgin of Guadalupe
pray for us

 

Cryptorium 
Water Wall

Cryptorium

Row Fisherman Row

 

 

 

 

Ascension

 

 

 

  

 

Modern Icon 

 

 

 

 

No separation between sacred 

and secular life 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Unto dust thou shalt return

Yet thy spirit need not

 

 

 

 

I am the Light of the World

 

 

 

 

Storm clouds retreat 

Space outside sacred space is made sacred

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Departed Souls

 

 

 

Estuary brimming

in the aftermath of an atmospheric river

 

 

 

 

 

Sacred mushrooms can help

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 To aspire to become a saint

is to become one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cathedral of Christ the Light

Lake Merritt, Oakland 

25 October, 4 November 2021 

 

 

 

 

Allhallowtide IV: Dia de Los Muertos Celebration on 9th Street

 

 

Allhallowtide 2021

Chapter Four

 

 After my long walk to the boneyard
on Piedmont Avenue

where I skipped the parade
I landed at 9th in time for the bone show

 

 

 

The Hallowmas Tridium 
Samhain
El Dia de los Muertos
 Worldwide line between the living and the dead
is at its thinnest, its most liminal

 

Altar of remembrance

 

 

 Drummer unites the street scene

 

 

And here they come

 Los Aztecas

  

To smoke us all out

 

 

To string the altars together 

the spiritual front line

 

 

The dancers take seriously their responsibility

 

 

 

Symbols

not simulacra

 

 

 

For the departed 

 

 

 

 

 Let the people express themselves

 

 

 

 

We mean it, man

 

 

Bringing up the tail end 

A Brujo blowing a conch shell

 

 

 

 

 

To reconvene down the end of the street

 

 

 

And the drummers keep up the beat

 

The altar near my daily passageway

 

 

Break it down now

 

They are really down with it by this point

 

 

I'm safely tucked-in

beside the splendid colors 

 

 

For a serious smoke out 

 

 

 

Very agreeable incense smoke stuff 

 

 

Hey now

 time out of time

never to be forgotten 

30 October 2021

 

Appendix:

 

 

 Galleria de los Calaveras

 

 

 

 

 

 Psychedelic mushroom skull

 

 

Visionary window

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Existencialista!

 

 

 

Music is the ultimate pleasure

still available to the dead 

 

 

Blessed Mamasita

pray for us

 

 

 

 

Mexican Day of the Dead

is mainstream USA by now

 

Sooner or later
we all have our final doctor's appointment

17, 28 October 2021