OTI: one pic, nineteen poems, notes:4/12/18

 

Open To Interpretation

 

Declaritives

 

Times

 

Anyway, we live in thought crowded times.
 

Attention
 

The sun's not a shadow, the moon's not a reflection,

So why haven't I your attention?
 

Be
 

It's all make believe trying not to be.
 

Sure
 

Sure as rain touches every desert.
 

Insects
 

Insects are smart in their repeating ways.

Lapwings
 

The limping lapwings will lead you astray.

Lotto
 

We rubbed our lotto scratchers--no matches.

Glimpse
 

Glimpsed, walking by, an entire future.

 

 

from King Tut exhibit...

 

Before And After
 

So, you inherited before, as you will after.

 

Craftsmen
 

Woodcarver for King Tut, what made you cut?
Goldsmith, what miners' thirsts found your gleams?

 

Affection
 

Affection: her gentle hand on your shoulder;
Hawk's wing over your prone thigh.
 

Dreams
 

Painted figures in total darkness

Inhale your dreams.

Souvenirs
 

Tourists take away souvenirs of maybe heaven maybe hell.

 

Flies
 

I wouldn't lift a shovel for you,
Yet around you our thoughts
Swarm like flies.

Black
 

The air conditioning wasn't on...
That black sparkling un-focusing me.

 

Ostriches
 

I was on your chariot,
Chasing ostriches--
Just so we filed by and gone
Past your cluttered wonders.

Gaze
 

Oh, we all have that singular gaze in common-- reading.

 

Guardians

 

Still, your guardians in the shadows...

As if we're all burglars.

 

Sound
 

The wind today from the desert--
The sounds you heard we hear too.

 

DolphinWords

 

Notes:  Went to see the King Tut show yesterday.  Took a curious route to get there, Exposition Park in Los Angeles.  Wanted to avoid the freeways, and Silver's, my jeep's, death wobble.  Had work done to get it to pass smog test, and incidentally the mechanics inflated the tires to specs...too inflated I suspect, as nearly wobbled off the road!  Over inflation one of the ills that brings on the wobble.  So study maps now on how to get from here to there without freeways.  So, so, took Katella, which turns into Willow, and turned right at Main...confused at King Blvd. as it intersects Main as one way going wrong way to reach Park, but managed to get back over to Figueroa and in time for my 2 pm slot.  Took an hour and a half.  Coming back I braved the freeways...110-405-22...traffic jammed up so went slow.  An interesting transition on the surface streets from OC to LA...for sometime.  It was a hurried visit to the Science Museum.  Show lasts until January 2019, so maybe go again...meanwhile, my Angels are doing marvels...10-3 at the top of their division...and I have tickets for Boston on 17th and Yankees on 20th...tried to get tickets for Allsion Krauss at the OC Fair,  but ticketmaster messed with me...and now wants like 250 dollars for ticket...problem with buying just one I guess...oh, the unfairness of popularity!