8.31

cloudless blue white sky above black plane of ridge

crows calling from black pine branch across from it

repetition, whether sight that came from demand for

perhaps one sees another, relation to, may speak of

really quite remarkable that a person of my age not

far from “crossing the bar” can be as happy as I am

red line of clouds above shadowed shoulder of ridge

line of pelicans flapping to the right toward point

8.30

pink red edges of clouds above still shadowed ridge

blue jay landing on edge of weathered redwood fence

exhibition of renderings, eldest of the children of

figure understood, series of drawings, body whereas

Ginsberg on deathbed asking Baraka “do you need any

money? I’m dying but not worried, that’s how it is”

yellow orange line of cloud above shoulder of ridge

line of pelicans gliding to the left toward channel

8.29

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

four sparrows slanting toward branch across from it

variation of the boundary of, expression given here

measured, between points, in this case length which

Martha Graham ending her autobiography by asking at

age ninety-six “What is there for me but to go on?”

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

diagonal white line of wave breaking across channel

8.28

light in window opposite unmade yellow and blue bed

sound of bees beside lavender flowers in foreground

appearing determined just are, therefore as what is

phenomenon, other kind of object, respect for facts

wind in trees yesterday wedding sound effect leaves

wild as in “Blow Up,” upstairs bedroom fading light

grey whiteness of fog above plane of shadowed ridge

white wave in mouth of otherwise motionless channel

8.27

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

blue jay landing on edge of weathered redwood fence

objective, overlapping of present in the passing of

other one, have you heard what, have the impression

process of registrations interweavings or layerings

of consciousness kept another time beyond quotidian

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

line of pelicans flapping to the right toward point

8.26

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

sound of jet passing to the right above pine branch

no longer satisfied with, practice as it was for so

opaque, observes all that without, before and above

seeing/hearing things in words that will not change

thinking both suspect and capable of undoing itself

grey whiteness of fog reflected in plane of channel

osprey with fish flapping to the right toward point

8.25

fog still in window across from yellow and blue bed

blue jay standing on edge of shadowed redwood fence

appear, several important other references cited in

double exposure, backview understood, shortly after

something about perception of things out the window

on the table, intersection of physical and abstract

still grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

white wave in mouth of otherwise motionless channel

8.24

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

five sparrows landing on feeder in right foreground

position with respect to, where the field is varied

three at rest, stationary system, at what point two

father’s note on Ginsberg’s “disposition of ashes,”

wants his in the hills and offshore at Yankee Point

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

white wave breaking in otherwise motionless channel

8.23

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

sparrow landing on black pine branch across from it

looking into names, since themselves in relation to

visible context, material in it, looking or viewing

imagine how each of us has grown up under influence

of the woman who gave life to us in the first place

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

white line of wave breaking to the right of channel

8.22

dream in unmade yellow and blue bed opposite window

traffic stopped on way to scattering mother’s ashes

past the event objective, fixed positions not to be

physical, not there still, another one “what music”

stretch out the phenomenon of being present so that

looking is seeing, the arriving of blue green light

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

wingspan of egret gliding to the right toward point

8.21

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

sparrows landing on column of feeder across from it

anticipates the scale one vertical, following these

observes all that, before it, only in those moments

as an aside “last week was kind of sad,” her little

brother drove to the Golden Gate Bridge then jumped

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

wingspan of egret flapping to the left toward point

8.20

waking from dream in the unmade yellow and blue bed

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

anyone includes numerous, first volume of projected

one patch of surface, one at a time, circles figure

memorial for my mother, still alive in another room

but I don’t see her, who will die when this is done

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

diagonal white line of wave breaking across channel

8.19

light in window across from the yellow and blue bed

sparrow calling from shadowed branch across from it

in addition to the field, from the beginning derive

observer, measures length of, in the same way as if

have you seen Mercury to the right of Jupiter (from

east to west Mars Saturn Venue Jupiter and Mercury)

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

line of pelicans flapping to the right toward point

8.18

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

honeybee by lavender flower beside green front door

as experience to relation to, so that by naming its

anything more than after, there, window looking out

important things going on in evening sky, alignment

of planets not to be repeated for two hundred years

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

diagonal white line of wave breaking across channel

8.17

fog still in window across from yellow and blue bed

dream of people none of whom know each other’s name

sequence of coming to, in short passing by becoming

impression of beats, air, (sound) and light (color)

something (word, part of word, mark of punctuation)

making visual/acoustic pattern of reading/listening

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

diagonal white line of wave to the right of channel

8.16

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

bird landing on shadowed pine branch across from it

present setting sun, gave way to star-filled format

animal in the world, turn which has taken, “object”

walking into camera obscura, cupping left hand over

aperture, in the darkness see the seeing of nothing

still grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

wingspan of gull flapping to the right toward point

8.15

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

two blue jays perched on left edge of redwood fence

while includes as well as numerous, first volume of

earlier picture, converge on one, turns at touch of

shapes of words on page as much a part of things as

sound that’s left after everything else washes away

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

pelican flapping across motionless plane of channel

8.14

waking from dream in the unmade yellow and blue bed

something about the line about dropping into a wave

variant position, seen in if not expressed in field

along the axis of, length moving, imagine following

kind of like my childhood dream of finding a book I

could never finish, looking toward face of the blue

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

line of pelicans flapping to the right toward point

8.13

dream in unmade yellow and blue bed opposite window

grey whiteness of fog against still invisible ridge

as the looking one is not mere, lets what is appear

heads looking out window, not visible, after images

parenthetical statement concerning Drayton’s Idea’s

Mirror whose title has stuck between eyes for years

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

line of pelicans flapping across motionless channel

8.12

light grey whiteness of fog against invisible ridge

after image of window in unmade yellow and blue bed

that when comes into past not bereft of, inverse of

depths of, corresponds to register of, RED can give

got “red” on the brain in conjunction with the past

echo of “read,” reading of past inscribed in memory

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

white wave breaking in otherwise motionless channel

8.11

waking from dream in the unmade yellow and blue bed

light blue green bike leaning against redwood fence

representing time of day, leave question of whether

“open,” such that against is before it, thus opaque

here then back and forth between words when written

always feeling them made to hear from here to there

whiteness of fog against shadowed shoulder of ridge

wingspan of gull flapping to the right toward point

8.10

grey blackness of fog still against invisible ridge

shadowed birds perched on rose branch in foreground

objects still in an oval, selected three in another

picture focus, drawing as if to, of similar subject

each letter appears in time as a beat, rhythm which

doesn’t repeat sounds that get lost in other sounds

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

whiteness of wave breaking across windblown channel

8.9

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

sound of unseen car passing in street in foreground

invariant with respect to the two fields, or fields

given, is also stationary along the axis of, motion

not visual area beyond map, even the can not green,

the first person not continuous, ruptured by commas

grey white fog reflected in motionless grey channel

wingspan of pelican flapping to the right toward it

8.8

grey whiteness of fog against still invisible ridge

sound of cars passing in street in right foreground

light where it is said of the sun, visible in light

between see and remember, willing to see, pass over

finding itself in itself syllable by syllable, word

by word if one is to feel the forms of motion in it

grey whiteness of fog against top of shadowed ridge

pelican flapping to the right toward fog on horizon

8.7

light in window opposite unmade yellow and blue bed

sound of jet above black pine branch across from it

when present with it, was what was to come after it

with its deep magnificent sounds, “see” BLUE, green

consistency in the nearly, if not altogether, total

freedom from reference to or turning back on itself

grey line of fog against shadowed shoulder of ridge

white line of wave breaking across mouth of channel

8.6

grey whiteness of fog again against invisible ridge

honeybee buzzing at lavender beside green back door

may have been dictated as much by precious, related

open document, reader who questioned him, writes of

meanwhile and otherwise, oleander and bougainvillea

are blooming, butterflies in lavender boat behaving

grey whiteness of fog still against invisible ridge

wingspan of gull flapping across toward the horizon