18 October 2013

sunset @ Gilda's, Santa Cruz

Time Passes in Gutters

               not everyone can have the benefit of being insane

               but anyone can make life easier for themselves

               by turning down the beam of reason

                                                                     — Montaigne

The riding mower

back of the house forgets me.

News from the window

is not birds, not wild animals

but delivery trucks & neighbors,

surfer sliding a van door.

What color is gunmetal?

Sea stainless across the bay.

Cat invisible under brush.

Only deciduous trees are real,

the rest stage set, easy listening.

Leaves of chestnut pollards

turn yellow when I’m not

outside. Reader, I advise you

to study solids & fluids,

not to draw a house.