Travel

So this is how Dr. Seuss must feel.

A student from the U.S.A.
at 16 in Sweden
I took a cigarette
offered by Mohammed,
one of many Arab youths
at our high school

We talked about Volvos and Thunderbirds,

March 3, 2010

Guten Morgen, _______. I have no milk or sugar for my coffee this morning, but no real problems either. I'll take black coffee any day.

Klamath in the summertime
has a wonderful clime:
fields of cows and hay,
men at work
children at play

The fountains and bonzais downtown
(surprisingly unmaimed)
seem out of Sausalito,

Watch that you, watch that, watch that repetition doesn't get, get, get you as well.

A passenger on the subway...

The words of the city are everywhere

I send a chunk of driftwood jack-knifing through the air, but the water’s too far away and it just drops with a pat.

Aching for a friend on the other side of the world

Blueberries are sweet and yielding
with a flavor fruity and of the earth,
the very embodiment of Spring
a fruit of cost but higher worth

In wild woods and neat rows

I don't remember where I got it,
but it's blue and black and quite expensive
every stitch well done,
and wherever I am
surrounded by friends or material possessions

Babcock Ranch Excursion

Friday, January 15, 2010- Ft. Myers, Florida

someone else

I am just trying to write myself out of being stuck

We've seen Mdina atop its hill
Rabat is waiting for us still,
So leave behind its age-old stones
Its horses, bells and cicerones.[1]

*****
Walk past the "Bacchus" restaurant[2]

Perched on high atop its hill
The "Silent City" is far from still, (1)
Cathedral bells in strident tones
Seem to shake its age-old stones.

In a cool and shaded street

This is about my time in Scotland. Scotland has a campaign on at the moment about trying to defeat racism. It was supposed to be just a few lines but mine turned into this.

We heard the palm leaves whisper,
Their soft and subtle warning,
Breathing thick and spicy air,
A sudden storm is dawning.

Smashing into palm trees,
Falling from the sky,

"it's the same story
crow told me" ya know it's the
"only one he knows" - The Grateful Dead

walking icy streets,
a close eye on the traffic:

Thursday- December 24,2009-Tampa, Florida- Christmas Eve.