Sunday, August 27, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
"Dive In," by Roger Illsley
Roger and I decided to work on a reggae song. He did the heavy lifting. I just helped with some of the lyrics:
Crossing the Sierra Valley
Rolling through the scuffed
micro-towns of Vinton and Chilcoot,we get to a panorama
of the Sierra Valley--biggest
high-altitude plain in these mountains.
Golden light that's slipped past
thunderheads makes the Valley
glow like a cathedral floor. Now
the thunderheads drape blue
curtains of showers on
surrounding mountains.
We'll cross the Valley, then
take the highway's snaking
curves up a thousand feet
to Yuba Pass & from there
weave down to where the giant
blue massif of rock, the Sierra
Buttes, presents itself &
when I see it, I get a home
feeling even though I haven't
lived there for decades. I'm glad,
so glad, to see pockets of snow
up there in August.
hans ostrom
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
She Recalls the Airport in Sacramento
She remembers
sitting stoned in the Sacramentoairport, which in no way
seemed excited about air travel.
To her, the jetways looked
like rectangular caterpillars
with accordions
in place of heads: polka!
People getting off airplanes
seemed like tourists
returned from Dante's Hell,
only scuffed, but disappointed.
Some endless minutes saw
her mind go blank like a TV
that received but could not
broadcast or stream.
Airplanes napped in weird
corners of the tarmac.
Gate agents spoke
laconically on the intercom.
Contagious yawning rippled
among waiting travelers.
Sacramento: an airport next
to farmland--relaxed, unimportant,
laid all the way back--all, all
the way back, she recalls
through glazed windows of the mind.
hans ostrom 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
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