PLEASE HELP BLUE PRESS STAY AFLOAT

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Headlands

going under        undaunted     
undulating
could get you DQ’d

A showing of hands
flickering red neon No Vacancy
Thomas De Quincey

(Pale turquoise in the shallows
gets darker the farther out you go)

Smashed windows in the ocean rush
settling into cracks in the pavement
a heel of sidewalk
groaning with albatrossian hang-time
bedecked with seaweed brocade

Eric Dolphy “On Green Dolphin Street”

(with a rail of mist tuning E-strings in the eucalyptus
a definite maybe


14 April ‘13