Felling yellow melons with tree scythes and brass knives

  Daydream of pertinence

         pressing fantasy bleeds into reality

Stairs of repetitive choreographed squares piling highly

                   atop around and below

Thin mints glow neon green fluorescence

   emanating lunar illumination

              white scattered city lights

just enough bright for this time of night

    Insomniacs revving by, off to a plethora of destinations

  tossing coins into the deserted Oakland Avenue

breathing vanilla atmosphere at the intersection

           standing between parallel yellow lines

     echo in the din of a penny rolling down a hill

                  shroud of mist and uncertainty engulfs

  twig snapping somewhere in the proximity

               lurking black cat with bright green eyes turns, pauses, scurries away

  a clap of wood on wood

     or a gunshot from over the horizon?

          the sound itself, imagined

Time stands still as cars flash by

          darkness elucidates, making all evident

    world streaming by a bubble suspended in the 4^th dimension

               of fantasy and conjecture,

                    and relative reality and selective memory

       and mental clarity of a visionary

  extrapolating pasts and futures, tracing descendants and ascendancy

Squirrels and cats roam, coexisting in another reality right beside our own

       concurrent subsistence, mutual obliviousness

                   predatory prowling, intimidating scowls

       rabbits and owls play cat and mouse

all around the bubble

             the city is being transformed to rubble

     slow but insistent weeds seeping into the urban collage of infrastructure

                    emerald tints the decaying sidewalk

         patchwork of manmade slaps

  casualties of the natural order

             portal into a new sector of the mind

                            zone of untouchable epiphanies

    rustling leaves stir serenely

                the dead ones flutter down

                       settle on the surface

                                of consciousness

        snowflakes of baffling complexity

the passage of days and parasites creates erratic holes and spots in these leaves

       badges of authenticity

imperfections that form a perfect specimen

fissures abysms and chasms symbolize ingestion digestion and reintegration into the life cycle

          Is this the essence of time

                gradual shifts in appearance

                       response and conformity to outside pressures

     but once injected back into the process it’s all meaningless

              and lost

        stolen significance

                all value is transient and temporal

                       unattainable in the purified state, permanence

          eternal delight that we eternally strive to realize

    and time that has no beginning and no end has no relevance

             no bearing on reality

      or correlation to the endlessly rising and setting sun

                   whose actions defy time durations and explanations

           step outside the boundaries of conceptual constraint

  puffing chemicals and oxygen

          steamy swirls billow out, coalescing

   blending in suspended existence

          as the children fade away to rejuvenate

                                                      recuperate

                                                     recreate

                                                    reinvent

                                                   relive

                                                the gaseous

                                           the undefined

                                       the unreachable

         reincarnated for a new day, a new reality.

 

10 April 2004