Taking Cover
Covering tracks
with spoons on the way up Sinai, fingering index cards with pencil-scraped directions.
with Communist leaflets and clever condoms wrappers never put to use in our copper rims.
with ground incisors and redwood bark, peeling away at something fearsome.
with single light refractions that dim the lens.
with crocheted feeding tubes and a Xerox - the last will and testimony.
Color Theory
Switching film from
black and whit to color feels
like switching religions
where we answer to
the same god but
the latter lacks fire and
brimstone and
my worship seems forced
without that contrast.
You ask me why I
take colorless photos but
my calculated reply sounds
hollow: in black and white
I show definitive place but
keep the colors for myself.
This passion sways on secrecy
like you and me
and settling for color film
is sign of developing.
Postcard from Coast, pt. 1
After I've come,
my back to you I turn.
I see you
in an evening down-
pour, your naked body
pressed to the stump
of a fallen redwood.
You were yelling
something about condors.
The windows are open
and it is December.
Points
In a photo:
We are standing on a rocky outcropping
surf spray sticking to our cheeks.
It is dim, violent
the air and water shake.
I hope we are exposed.
Filling pockets with pebbles of jade
weight hanging in our balance
through a wooden tunnel with
piss-stained boots and crumpled tissue
a view.
I wish the Beats hadn't seen this first.
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