Built for Sunset

All them immensities of the sea
at dark of noon beneath the midnight
sun
              candles burning in red glass jars on
Mexican voodoo shrines
underwater
                              iron saints, Bhikkucitas,
& left-handed martyrs attending

a beach scene as rendered by
Picassos of Duchamps,
Diebenkorns, Ruschas, and
O   p   s   t   e   d   a   l   s

Even the pavement is eloquent
if you listen

North of Malibu
ocean spills over edge of sky
all at once
in B-minor