ON DIVISADERO

ON DIVISADERO   A hill with faces and sidewalks, green shoes and sneakers without laces, chalkboard menus, peppers and onions and bicycles passing apartments with yellow shutters and terracotta pots with flowers reaching over touching heads as buses crawl and street cars sing the cables and pulleys stretch, the youth laugh with tan skin and … More ON DIVISADERO

OPENING DREAMS

  The pop of jazz rushed a line from his horn long with lifting a breath desired as the world slips from his eyes opening dreams with furious release like night runners searching for safety where every street is an alley of a song yet formed as angels slip and run and crowds lean into … More OPENING DREAMS

UPSTREAM

          Engine words roughed and ragged fell out of him, crushing the room, pushing back like a wind energy strengthening like a storm wild with debris and alarm waking the untrusting slapping the innocent Stirring an motion wild with song a moaning like windows opening after winter silence he stretches his … More UPSTREAM

FAR ABOVE

        A ripple of air passes over a curtain in an open window.   Papers tumble gently, trapped at the base of a picket fence.   A weathervane signals direction, twisting quickly.   A furious language descends. Shutters slap senselessly without rhythm.   Tree tops swirl like ocean bottom seaweed.   Leaves … More FAR ABOVE

IN HIS COLOR

    The fingers of his childhood pointed into heaven, teasing angels with music food, coaxing their beauty to his porch to slap their wings in approval.   Mockingbirds held the tongue of their voices when his horn owned the air, bending the sky onto the dust of his shoes.   Fields of labor stirred … More IN HIS COLOR

UP AHEAD

Highway trucks beat a rhythm of road. Red lights press and release like arteries pulsing. Steady and long, full and heavy. Songs of travel spin the blacktop; miles behind lay thin and pressed. Rolling behemoths, like buffalos cresting hills, feverishly running corners and flats. Kings of the road.  Soldiers scripted to find their place, somewhere … More UP AHEAD

HER WEB

  A fellowship of approval formed her like strong waves blessing the song releasing nectar dripping thick as the bass man slipped into smooth releasing a passion to the strings submitting to his touch while the lights dimmed and hands clapped them into the next set where pearls of sound filled the years with stories … More HER WEB

SECOND CHANCES

  The pull of gravity provides a slow blink of reality and caution.   Unfamiliar dreams of eyes with stars, kings of stone, and watch towers under gray slate skies create the beginning of desperate ambitions.   Repentant knees drop with emotion, praying for pockets of hope and second chances.

STEP FAST

  The room filled dark with twists where shadow vapors of crossed arms and legs on a wall flashed under low beamed lights capturing a motion of souls bathing warm like angels walking over clouds high above an earth beat of rotating full sounds until the moon rises pressing out the cold with voices melting … More STEP FAST