30

For Jed

Outrider in any other language
The edge of meaning translated
Into the bop & pop of beats
Repeat to fill the white hall
At the top of the stairs where
Sunlight falls on the golden
Singing bowl--cymbals crash
In a dance of stomping guitar
Whirl into the world to confront
Heartbreak & existence alone.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

29

Input: Cheap Wine & Poetry last night

The scene
& the seen
Commingled
Jazz riffs &
Neruda odes
The wine
& the whine
Distinguished
NY voices &
The woods.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

28

Input: Behind the scenes @ Burke Museum

Shelved
Labeled in Latin
White gloved
Cradled
Senses linger
Albatross
Snowy owl
Spanning the wing
Fossilized
Mum.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

27

Samples: The Journals of Keith Haring

Writing in a book
Is putting time in
The time in books
Is different
Time defines context
Because of limits
Of language if not
More dependent
On context
Of verbalization.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

26

at Writers' Happy Hour, Hugo House

"No, no, I had a concussion"
1/2 mile south of Hwy. 92
Wall-to-wall broadloom
"Back on my feet"
Modern & chlorinated
Stay at the best
Antenna reaches 5 stories
Covers the province
"I was drunk the night before"
Phone available.


- Written in public.

Location:11th Ave,Seattle,United States

25

Samples: The Journals of Keith Haring

I believe
I maintained
I avoid being a victim
I was interested
I'm not sure
I actually enjoy
I have always loved
I will make
I just stockpile
I don't want.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

24

Samples: The Journals of Keith Haring

I always believed
I have tried as much as I could
Sometimes I have been successful
It is impossible to separate the activity from the result
I actually enjoy making "things"
Seeing "things"
The sense of time
The shortness of the moment
The only time I am happy is when I am working
I switched brushes.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

23

Cabbie stops to check
Text messages--
Joggers race against
The flashing red hand--
Driver leaves everyone
Behind in the tunnel--
Port workers approach
Abandoned car--
"I haven't been doing good
Without the sun."

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

22

Agenda adjacent
To meeting to
Fleeting moment
All folders are
Up to date
Wait hour glass
Keep your eye
On the future
Increase improve
Increase increase.

- Written in public.

Location:Fairview Ave N,Seattle,United States

21

Sounds of a house
In the morning
Vibrating awake its
Dull thud calmed by
Movement of air
Circulating creaks
That during night's
Silence thundered w/
The noise of settling
Of staying put.

Location:Thomas St,Seattle,United States

20

A.

Input: Nick Cave exhibit, Seattle Art Museum

Sewn together
Goodwill hand-
Me-downs
Jump up & down
Buttons up in
Armor
Metallic crocheted
Electronica
Across white walls
Pogos.

B.

Input: Alan Lau reading, Francine Sedars Gallery

What remains after
Music stops
"I'm late again"
What's inside
A pagoda of art
"I remember you"
What sound do
Onion skins make
Saxophone blows
"Chinatown."


- Written in public.

19

Input: North End Forum last night

"Love Hurts" as a hymn
To him who strums &
Picks artfully alone--
Meditation brings things
Down to a single note--
Another chapter in
The Adventures of--
Crazy hearts collaborate
On heart beats pounded on
The drummer's drum.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

18

"I don't remember
Falling"
Changing
Of the guard
Off guard
No regard
For tripping
"There was blood
Everywhere"
No kidding.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

17

at Nisqually Flats

Boardwalk on water
So many colors per
Square foot of scene
"Willow thickets are
A magnet for migrants"
Face completely covered
W/ a yellow screen
What landscape or NW poem
Would be complete
W/out a blue heron.

16

Drawn in after 30 years
Homeless dog under the Burnside Bridge
Stands in a line wrapped around the corner
"You look the same only w/
Gray hair"
Everyone nods that it looks like me
Among the stacks
Pulling New Direction
Water-stained & worn
New tricks.



- Written in public.

Location:SW Park Ave,Portland,United States

15

Spitting it out
Whisper to a shout
"Have you heard Fear?"
Facing the audience
Crazy dance
"Any chance
You write love songs?"
How long howling
For a generation
Regeneration.


- Written in public.

Location:N 130th St,Seattle,United States

14

at Major Jackson reading

Father Whitman look at us
Notes written on tissue
Narrative broken down
With too much context
"2 books of poetry in my home"
Tradition of aesthetics
Renditions of ashes tick
Readers & writers
Weeders & righters
"How about transformative moments?"


- Written in public.

13

Input: Major Jackson workshop Hugo House

"We have to learn to make
The back beat ourselves"
Sound found around
The page leaps w/ lyrics
Of non-linear association
You can catalogue
The world tumbling
The world tumbling
To the present
"The page is inferior."

- Written in public.

12

Amped
Sound chamber
All noise cut out
Highs & lows
Noted & charted
Advisory
Chit-chat
Deft & dumb
"You came back"
Same old.

- Written in public.

Location:Union St,Seattle,United States

11

A soul alone
W/ guitar &
A traveling-on-
Heartache song
Haloed
Sunlight dulled by
Filter-clouds
Amplified by
Gathered crowd's
Hush.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

10

Input: Ginsberg Marathon, @SPLAB

Channeling Allen in the living room
"Poetry as voice" another
Generation howls
Hair in its eyes
Roars the Lion roar anew
"This one is a little happier"
Foot-tapping
Spit-flying
Pure joy of
Now.


- Written in public.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

09

"Is that a radio network?"
At the corner of Aurora &
Another Way--
The chimney is down
Before the next earth-
Quake brings her down--
Landsliding her way for
Scotchbroom & black-
Berries to get a toehold--
Antennas attuned.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

08

Diverse
Rehearse
The wine is fine
Faces
Places
Look like mine
Fools'
Jewels
So divine
(Add your line...)


- ala Pull My Daisy

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

07

Tambourine man is nowhere
Man w/ his jingle-jangle
Dancing outside the perimeter
A crazy spasm light essence
Of crazy skin/bone presence
Witness man to music man
To humanity bowed across
Strings of pure happening
& the beat man
The beat.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

06

Pillows stacked in cairn
Remembrance
Comes in meanings
Of ordinary
Objects & memory
Reading Zukofsky this line:
"No it was no dream
(O)f coming death,"
Pine tree stone-still after
Last night's wind.

Location:N 85th St,Seattle,United States

05

What wakes one
Dizzy w/ dreaming
From benign commonness
What found line
Positions forgiveness
An act from the past
Grinding & gnashing
What releases sleepers
From their biting to
Break their fast?

Location:N 98th St,Seattle,United States

04

Processes possess us
Locomotives that screech
Steel on steel on the backs
Of working-class ties--
Headlong into tunnels
Toward the light at the end
Train wrecks are only variances
Of a limited number of choices--
There cannot be more than
13 ways.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

03

para Raul Sanchez

2 beers & translation
Gets a lot easier
"What do you mean
By that" becomes
Instead of fighting words
--Word play
"I'm not saying
Anything" becomes
Better left interpreted as
Silence.

Location:N 98th St,Seattle,United States

02

Like learning to order
At the Korean restaurant
Or saying
Thank you, doctor, or
Coming across an aged print
Of Hokusai's view
Glued to the inside front cover
Or using up
3 more seconds
Of your 15 minutes.

Location:Fremont Ave N,Seattle,United States

01

Input: Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85.

Everything in place
Illusion alluding (etude)
In tune a tune
"Solitary & at times
Quite somber
Meditation"
The way he looks to his right
But it's our left
When the spotlight hits
The far shore-edge.

- Written in public.

Location:Washington 99,Seattle,United States