essay: 095 : Sweet strains of Piaf

I ponder.
With a mind, never at peace.
With itself.
Searching eternally.

Drove, through banks of fog.
6am, this morning.
God, it was beautiful.
Neon suffused.
Oceans mists.
Thought of Berlin.
The sweet strains of Piaf.
Drifting, through my ipod world.

Should I write words.
That make you weep?
Or smile, like atomic suns...

J'adore.
Every.
Last.
Drop...


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essay: #094: What lies Beneath

A once idyllic town.
Now a graveyard.
Bodies lie beneath.
Young and old.
I try to imagine.
But, can't...

Futures open up, again.
A big, beautiful blank page.
Path's diverge.
Into something better.

Friends swarm.
Life moves on.
What lies beneath?
I ask.
And I smile.
You either get it, or you don't...

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essay: 093: Sunday

Happiness is...

essay: #092: Sign o the Times

Storm blows through.
Tail end of a cyclone.
Sultry.
Red sand skies.
And a man.
Lying on the ground.
Face down in metropolis.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

No one looks.
No one stares.
"Why are you lying there?"
I want to scream.
But I don't...

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essay: #091: Anna's Lament

'Museum of purgatory'

A woman's silhouette.
Lights the treadmill.
By 6.30am's eerie glow.
"Motivation is a habit..."
Flickers the screen.

A man, meanwhile.
Guards a hydro-powered car.
In metropolis.
Tornadoes sweep Atlanta.
Room Service, guns, and Ricin.
Courtesy, Hotel Vegas.

Jakarta's idyllic rice paddies.
Volcanoes and ocean, too.
In my skin.
In my skin.
Scanners darkly and lightly.

Subtropical heat.
For days now.
Desert blowin' in.
An Environment Minister.
Spoke, last night.
Launched a book.
Spread the word.
Color me Kyoto.
Color me, next stop....
Home

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essay: #090: The Diving Bell

Defunct satellites.
Fall from orbit.
As do stars.
Of the human kind.

Dreamt of him.
Again, last night.
On volcanic sand.
His skin was hot.
And life was good.

Coastlines dredged.
While others flood.
The Diving Bell.
And the Butterfly.
Simple, really.
Coming home, soon....

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essay: #089: Graffiti Surf

Surf rolls in.
Across burnished skins.
Graffiti Kyoto Sunset.
Scrawled across our skies.
Beautiful, just like this....



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essay: #088: on discovery channel

Sultry breeze.
Summer's here.
Cubans.
Tom Waits.
Digital love.

To this.

True happiness is only ever shared...

Hola
and happy surfing
on Discovery Channel!

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essay: #087: Ivory Towers

"Tell me a story," he says.
As the sun does rise.
So I pick up my camera.
Through deserted Metropolis.
Of cathedrals of glass.
And Ivory Towers for Galilleo.

"Life's an essay," I say.
Suffused with the random.
Summer approaches.
And fog subsides.
From San Fran.
To hemisphere's Southern.
Closer.
Closer.
As time ticks by....


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essay: #086: Transmission

Stark and eloquent.
Voices of the past.
Distant echoes.
Of the unfulfilled.

"Always danger.
Endless talking.
Life rebuilding.
Don't walk away."

Transmissions.
Of Curtis and Corbijn.
And ghosts of Manchester past.
Closer.
For just a second....


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essay: #085: everything is illuminated

c.guggenheim bilbao

Icarus flew too close to the sun.
While Salinger colored it, shades of rye.
Eco-systems, both great and small.
Ruptured in the blink of an eye.

Gehry imagined titanium gills.
And Frida, a car crash of vibrant red.
Basquiat, graffiti for the soul.
And I, charcoals bled.

Infinite possibility.
Everything is illuminated.
For our viewing pleasure.


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essay: #084 Stories from the Sea

Smudges of Venice.
Across my heart.
Arctic ice melt opens Northwest passage.:
While the albatross slides towards extinction.
A voice crackles long distance.
Night turns to day...
Metropolis of sensory overload.
That is he.

Enough said.

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essay: #083: Olympus Moon

Step through the rabbit hole.
Onto the other side.
See flames lick.
The winged statues.
Of ancient Olympia.

Doomsday vaults.
Taking shape.
Beneath Svalbard archipelagos.
To preserve.
4.5 million batches of seeds.
A biodiversity bank.
For our very survival.

“So, dear future….”
Whispers someone close.
Orbits my sky.
And blood, red moon.
Halos, all round.
My wings of desire.


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essay: #082: Satellite Sky

My editor says:
"Spin me a tale, bout the Wild Wild west."
I oblige.
Grey skies on swollen horizons.
Hurricanes upon my lips.
Solar systems.
Within his eyes.

Circa, 2007...

“I smiled and smiled, I smiled until my face hurt, but when my face did hurt I was sure he could tell. Everytime I forced myself to smile, he clearly knew that I didn’t feel like smiling, because he never smiled back. He hadn’t seen many smiles in his lifetime but he had seen yours, enough to recognize in comparison there was something wrong with Mother’s. It curled up falsely; it evaporated with revelatory rapidity when I turned from his crib. Is that where Kevin got it? In prison, that marionette smile, as if pulled up by strings.”

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver.

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essay: #081: Motes across Metropolis

Hopelessly adrift.
And without anchor.
Bridges collapse.
As love, does too.
Intimacy.
Yes, there's always that.


This architecture.
Designed to capture sunset's rays.
Motes across metropolis.
Catchers in the Rye.
1001 tales.
Of the city.

Pollock and Warhol.
Obscurity and notoriety.
Side by side.
Strange bedfellows for crayon drawings.
Stretched like skin.
Across gallery walls.

I taste air.
I taste sea.
I taste him.
On the tip.
Of my tongue.
Visions.
Grandiose.
And.
Enduring...

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essay: #080: jesus built my hotrod

c.ministry

First they lowered the flags.
Half-mast.
For a rail disaster.
And then.
Came the floods.
Jesus built my hotrod.
God bless him.

Co-ordinated attacks.
In heart of London.
Scotland, too.
One disabled.
Another, not so lucky.

“THE DAY TERRORISM RETURNED TO LONDON.”
Headlines, next day.
Gas canisters, petrol and nails:
“A lethal combination...”
A new Prime Minister takes office.
As Blair sets sail.
Into the sunset of global peacekeeping.

Digital love.
Meanwhile,
Becomes my avatar.
Broadcast Adventures.
Nightly.
Of loved ones.
Near and far.

Breathless, again.
Carpe diem.
Sweet, sweet humanity.

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essay: #079: Franks Wild Years

Numbers fascinate.
As does the relativity.
Of a windowless world.
A safe.
The click of hard, cold cash.
So early, in the morning.

Of love.
And its multiplicity.
Of currency.
Great and small.

Gaza strip takeover.
High tide.
At home.
And abroad.

Fog clings.
Meanwhile.
Eerily.
For days.

Tom Waits keeps me warm.
I see arteries to my momma's heart.
The devil on a Greyhound bus.
And a man afraid of his shadow...

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A patient lies in a hospital bed.
A stranger,in white.
The doctor, approaches:
“Sir, goods news, we're moving you to your own room."
“Fantastic,” says the patient.

Two days later.
Radioactive man.
And atomic particle.
A bleached shadow.
In quarantine...


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essay: #078: Crash

Losing my religion.
Is what I do.
Immersed in this car-crash life.
From verdant to Molotov.
And Kyoto blue.
Wired to a world.
Of YouTube sounds.



And midnight hours.
With a friend.
Or two...




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essay: #077: Chasing Volcanoes

Phil Spector makes his debut on MySpace.
Activists build replica of Noah's Ark .
On Mount Ararat.
Scientists argue.
Populations panic.
And all I can do.
Is chase volcanoes.
High in the sky...





Wai-O-Tapu
Thermal wonderland.
In God's Country.
Of Sulpher Sunrise.

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essay: #076: Sirens

Maori stone statues.
Iridescent sometimes.
Guardians of fire and wind.
And of volcanic isles.
From Raglan to Rotorua.
Duck hunting season's on...

Such beautiful land.
Carved by the elements.
And by history.
Air raid sirens of Te Awamutu.
Wails deep in the night.
As does, the ticking of time.

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