Monday, February 5, 2018

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 



 
 
 
 
 




Friday, February 2, 2018

February the First







February
each day is Valentine's Day






He was up late last night
digging a purple moon

He celebrates
Ground Hog Day
tomorrow






From BART to my coffee shop











Super duper game this week
who cares ?
Homey don't play that



 
Berkeley college on Center street
I find myself indoors again


Chance encounter
with a Black History month
celebration



Puzzling evidence
from a buried history






How Berkeley sees itself







 Some exhilaration
approaches in the stairwell





Drumming masters



Polyrhythms reverberated
throughout
uniting for a moment
our local community







They didn't play for long
 but it was sheer uplift
There was great pizza,
nuts and fruits
and cutie tangerines







After a doctor's appointment
travel by public bus,
 a quiet and poignant
traditional African-American
neighborhood to Oakland



The sky held
intimations of
Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
February's strange auguries





1 February 2018
 




If They Say That You Are the King (mail art)



















31 January 2018