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View from the balcony ... wishing for more summer lazy hum-strumming / Ocean City, NJ / June 2009
Bend low again, night of summer stars.
So near you are, sky of summer stars,
So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars,
Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,
So near you are, summer stars,
So near, strumming, strumming,
So lazy and hum-strumming.
~ Summer Stars by American poet Carl Sandburg
The kaleidoscope that is Atlantic City / July, 2009
As if the pixels of light depicting the world she is framed in
were impastoed by me to the monitor's glass canvass (to
be arranged
according to the obligation of my anonymous nobility),
what good could I do
to alter the facts of the world as it hustles around her?
What odds
do those birds stand to chance anyway?
Prevention is akin to greed. Say recovery
and a sermon salts the air. Consider the postcards here
on the counter beside me. They'll do no more than carry the
word of their
senders, speak pictures: Jersey's domed capital looks like a junkyard
of church bells, a reliquary of Sundays
wracked and laid to rest. Noble martyr, Trenton fears no law
of diminishing returns, says it “makes,
the world takes:” Another prays the next wet pebble
be the one that makes a beach. Paydirt. We should be so lucky.
They also make "sticky buns" / Ocean City, NJ / June 2009
Happy hour in the courtyard / Ocean City, NJ / July 2009
Basking in the glare of a summer day's sun / Ocean City, NJ / July 2009
