Birth of the Cool
“Be Stoked” says
the Dalai Lama
channeling Lao
Tzu & Mickey Dora
but the lady on
the roof
with the chain
around her neck
has a different
agenda entirely
Kind of Blue
Merely forgotten
we are gathered here today
to peel your
shadow off the sidewalk
& wear it
around our shoulders like cape
or a wet suit
beneath the
warmth of a winter sun
10 a.m. blue sky pelicans on the beach
not necessarily
the whale song 8-track
nor
the alibi
scratched on the back of a bus ticket
What you were
saying
a very long
breath
& though there
is no language for it
even the most secret
wave break
has a name
Bitches Brew
Over and over
shifting
sand & water
[REPEAT]. There
are several ways
to get
there but one
will bring you back
again. A wind
rakes the
parking lot over-
look. Wind on Ocean. It is
as it was. All new.
Sketches of Spain
The instant
(taken)
half
love half
smoke
crossing so many
times an emblem
as in some of
this actually happened
Air
and water equal chrome
w/a few minor
embellishments
picked up along the way
I won’t meet you
here
but somewhere a
mango sky describes
to anyone who’ll
sit still for it
