camera fritz

Baaron says, "update!"

My big camera has been on the fritz, but here's some pics from my little junky one.

Went camping two weeks ago w/Lemmon & Karen.

they goof


before the suspension bridge


veeerrrry wobbly, 30 meters down


wonderful misty mossy forest


We met a hunter who'd "hit one, but it got away." And a log fell out of the trees and cracked in two on my head.

Been going to events as part of the Fringe fesitval -- http://www.fringe.org.nz/

Saw an opera, a drag queen show, a play about a woman who smelled like a dish, & today a ukulele orchestra & Lemmon in a barbershop quartet. Here are two poems:

//--

Little Powerful Engine

"...and the earth is just someone's head."

Okay, then

the sky is a wide man's
open mouth breathing breezes--
suggestions for little birds
who live to be nudged astray.

And

A little bird who
flies in the headlights, harnessed,
shifts into third gear growling,
and drags my sports car up the hill

to the park! where

I see a bird fly at the wind and stick--
like a thumbtack-- to space.
I pick him out of the sky
and wrap him chirping, still flapping, as a gift.

So now!

when you tear the paper,
and open an empty box,
I can finally laugh and say,
"Poof -- Just kidding!
Somewhere in Wairarapa
a bird is still stuck to space!"

Then we can go hang
a picture of ourselves in the middle
of that empty room.

"...and the earth is just someone's eyeball
blinking 365 times."

//--

the tin can soda-pop
airplane -- silver, wicked --

smile a line from sanFran to Christ
Church, takeoff!

coat, hot socks, dress,
undies, jump in

ocean waves from thirty
thousand feet, wake up

with your shoes on and your feet
in your shoes walking

the plank, a path--
pitch forward into the dark

in-suck of a breath, a free
fall, past