Fractal Memory #5

The barking dog wakes us
early summer Sunday morning
hazy from the night before
we make love then return to sleep
awaken love sleep again
four or five times
I don't remember now
we finally leave the bed in early evening
and sit on the balcony
grilling steaks and drinking
in the low sun of the afternoon

Shopping Cart Safari

Doc and I used to work together at a grocery store near a smallish mall. Some Friday and Saturday nights if or schedules worked out, I would leave my car at home and we would take off in his car after work. Usually it was just typical idiocy, get some beer, find some girls, raise some Hell. One particular night,we got out a little later than normal. The mall area down the block was closed by the time we got done working. We headed over there in Doc's car on our way out of town and herded the stray shopping carts around the parking lot. With the car. We must have hit ten or fifteen of them, and sent them sailing all around the lot, bent mashed and mangled.

Fractal Memory #4

Driving the red truck
into the summer late afternoon
waiting for the night people
to come out
smoking a small sweet cigar
and damning the sun
for being so low and bright
right in the eyes
as I turn and head west

Fractal Memory #3

Moonlight on the water
late night summer swim
laughing girl takes my hand
and guides me
to her gentle shore

Invisible I

Early summer,1987 I think. Graduation party season, and we hit about five that day starting about noon. It got to be about 6:00 or so,and Doc decided he wanted to get something to eat. So we stop at Burger King and he goes in. His brother and I stay in the car, deciding we're too pissed up to go in. After about ten minutes or so we both decided we had to piss. We got out of the car and stood on either side. In the Parking lot. In broad daylight. Facing towards the second busiest road in town. And nobody looked at us twice, not so much as a horn honked by a passing car. Either it was too weird of a scene for people to believe, or we were invisible that afternoon for about three minutes.

Fractal Memory #2

Big blue car blonde girl driving
winter highway snow and wind
car too fast hits ice and spins
into the roadside snow
tall grass blowing in the cold
looks surreal encased in ice

Fractal Memory #1

a hot summer afternoon
but cool in the shade
of a cliff side cave
sitting on rocks in
the cave bottom
drunk a little
trip and fall
face to face with
the girl who was
brought by her
friend to meet me
our lips touch and we
kiss deeply