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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wonderland of Summertime

To be alive is great

in Two-thousand ten and eight

 

 

 

Soccer mural

on Telegraph sports bar

 

 

 

 

Vee Vee's

Hair Gallery

 

 

 

The decorative ruins of Auto Row

 

 

Along my route

an old corner store

I used to stop in

 

Candy man

been here and gone

 

 

 

My rolling skills

applied to the potent

Sapphire

 

Jackson Pollock

jaw-breakers

 

 

 

 Leaving my pad

Saturday afternoon

 

 

 

Altocumulus clouds

the Weatherman informs me

 

 

The Brazil Meadow,

Tilden Park, Berkeley

Optimal air temperature

on the edge of the shade

I roll into and out of

as needed

 

To the East

trees tower over,

Five miles in that direction

and the big heat sets in

all the way to the Atlantic

 

I stand alone

a few hikers around

 

Many an hour spent here

Lie in the grass, smoke,

picnic, yoga

look at the moving trees

 

 

I took the 67 bus

on a bum steer,

sour-faced Asian man my age,

So I had to walk down to this

Alpine plateau in sandals

Yes that's my tired dogs

but it was all down-hill

exercise and adventure

 

 

There was some sort of small

wedding reception going on

in the Brazil Room

Black-clad African man and

White woman in a wispy gown

the happy couple?

 

 

 

The magnificent meadow

time passes in a healing way

 

 

 

 

Night is slow in coming

the plump evening star

almost too distant for my lens

 

Summer's Always Gone

How high the Moon?

Will I see you in September?

or lose you to a Summer love

How I misspent my Summer stay-cation

the narcissistic minutiae of experience

Love minus zero

no limit

The centrifuge of sugar

You are getting very very

sleepy

Demon Sugar

A charming cheerful

entertainment product

for children

Here they come

I am the egg truck

Sugar Zombie lunchbox

I think somebody

over-egged

this kid

Geezer?

Send me your photo

when you are this age

Summer school in

my favorite subjects

Saw some surrational art

Reread an old old book

amazing descriptions of now

all dystopian predictions

have come true

Pure cinema

saw a movie I quite liked

Not much live music

except on the radio,

Only show I remember seeing

was Country Joe and the Fish

in a mighty reincarnation

playing the entire first LP

at a Summer of Love

50 year anniversary

outdoors on Telegraph

Morning, morning

again, again

They finally removed the shroud

from the new building next door

Ten feet of my Eastern view gone,

ah well perhaps it will reduce

particulate matter from

Broadway traffic

There it is in all its brutalism
Oddly they eschewed almost
all the southern sunlight
it create a village scene
more exclusive I suppose

This figure in the alley below

seems to mock me at times

depends on my mood

A large back porch

on the estuary

last of a  Victorian row,

Some say ghosts still gather

on a mid-summer night

Sweet young couple,

I imagine that they are going

to church to ask the priest

to marry them

Skiffs in repose

Estuary and hills

Our sparkling clear

summer weather,

mild in all seasons

The saintly knight

and his faithful horse

are undaunted

What the world needs now

more beasts on the road

urban gladiator shops

I left my convertible

in a parking lot

and continued on

on foot

Down the Port

down Jack London square

reflection of blue pole

in very red automobile

reaches ultra-indigo

Project X O

Disk found at X O location

Raiders are splitting for Las Vegas

(big thanks to Sheldon Adelson)

yet the marks continue

in their chauvinistic delusion

Beneath City Hall

Courthouse, jail, highway,

BART tracks

not merely a tent

a rubble field homestead,

The first public school in Oakland

was once located here,

metal plaque since stolen

I fly the coop

make my exit

file for endangered

species status

Spend a lot of time

 by the water

and in the garden

Water and flowers

all one needs for a good time

 

Fuchsia

lifts me up

Shade tree experience

the best things in life

are free if you are

Evening

used to marvel how

fast a week seems to go by

today I feel that about

the years

I'll send you all my love

everyday in a letter

sealed with a kiss

     August-September 2017