project monster (1990)

the nearby projects materialize sleep
of beauty stirred
from a wall of jazz blaring across
the cultural center whose power
dreams its own awareness
into temperance of sunlight
yielding a lean to the project window,
be it filled by gold plastic ball
trophies or literary acceptance
small delicate hairs
on wrist search the rungs to a city
where sunglaze spices
projection's veering glance
as attention to wind
desires something akin to artists who reek
O sorrow &fear involved
in non-artful penniless loch ness hunger
swimming neath the free beer river
under misty netherworld guises
smiling leans through wind-owned arts


san francisco USA
1990