A collection of photos and poems interacting with each other in ways both mysterious and obvious.
Cathode legerdemain:
emptiness made incandescent,
broadcasting ancient translations,
aural harmonies,
plugged in truths.
Electric shamanism transmitting
the early precepts of confidence,
unleashed modules of song,
tattoo space with drama and invention.
Sonic concussions remain
indelible in their
expansive reach.
Boat dreams,
lofted by some
unreachable promise
of adventure and calm,
and making a fluid escape.
You thought.
Deluded again
by the huckster idea
of the good life.
Antique habits,
flaccid regrets,
dings and notches
of neglected days.
The smell of change,
the shift towards
the stillness of growth.
Brilliant flash
in a last display
of color,
marking the
dry time of
sleep.
Even the dog
is flummoxed by
the existence of
“Hogan’s Heroes.”
Early morning
searing beach -
low tide,
the whiff of
fresh brine vegetable decay.
A faint breeze mutes the humidity
like a flirt whispering
sweet nothings in your ear,
making promises
she will never keep.
Every source of secret amusement
comes with the cost
of isolation, and
the threat of smugness -
conviction of a specialness,
a vestige of a
childhood inkling
that, inhaled
like some illicit powder,
maintains that delusion,
when the rough truth
remains:
it is not so.
Boho Dreams of Space and Time 