Passage 20. The yellow back wheel rises up, up, up past the tipping point. I can see mica flakes on[…]
Month: August 2018
Layla’s Reply to the Love Song in al-Azhar Park, Cairo
Passage 19 If Cairo were in a traffic-free calm, I would exchange it for your poetic calm. Spurting fountains splash[…]
Majnun’s Love Song in al-Azhar Park, Cairo
Passage 18 Dust and frenetic traffic cloud my calm. I exchange them for al-Azhar’s green calm. The Park’s public[…]
Les Passages de Paris
Passage 17. Hommage à François Villon Street photographer and drifter, Boulevardier and flâneur, I crave to engage the city. That’s the[…]
Monserrat, Spain
Climbers at Monserrat Passage 16. The holy mount is refusing me, a godless turtle swimming in the sea,[…]
Climbing Mt. Sinai
Passage 15. I am Jebel Musa. Another night of pilgrims trudges up me at 2 A. M., their time. My[…]
Beauty
He bends his neck double preening a stubborn spot balancing on a high budding branch aloof, unemboldened by Charlotte’s glimpsing[…]
Climbing Camel’s Hump in Winter
Passage 14. “Prudently, we make a campfire in a circle near water, and rest at this mountain.” At least[…]
Climbing Old Mozo, aka Mt. Mansfield
Passage 13. This is the best hike I’ve ever been on. This is the worst hike I’ve ever endured.[…]
Mystic, Ovid and Glippo: The Great Gulf
Passage 12. I. “Four point one miles” announces Mystic with cryptic smiles. “Not a frantic hike up arctic Mt. Washington[…]