April Showers
April 1st, 2011 | Uncategorized
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Ellen Rosen says:
Back After reminds me
The first thing I did when I came home from college was to walk to Rosegarden, and count the number of redwood trees. I realized in my time away that the best thing about the Rosegarden wasn’t the roses, it was…the trees.
(is it possible the # was 67?)
April 4th, 2011 at 3:24 AM
Catherine says:
Thank you Back After
You prompt me to remember the One Big Question about establishing a sense of place is establishing a Canon of Place Experience. By which i mean: What places are essential. I love your memories as I sense your places may be like mine.
April 4th, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Ida says:
The redwood at the bottom of south first street
You can’t see it, but you can tell:
This is one deep-rooted tree.
Funny, how the ones in Plaza Park look smaller.
April 7th, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Roger the Baron says:
I know that tree, Ida
What’s really funny
Is that in this town that used to be man-made orchards by the square mile
We can hardly ever find anything deep-rooted.
Much less a tree.
April 7th, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Ellen Rosen says:
Because I promised to be mindful of Muzak
It’s cold again. But warmer in the dentist’s office on Forest. I look at the ceiling and at the vent. I always do: where else to look when you’re on your back here?
Rod Stewart, Have I Told You Lately on Kbay. Boy, that’s a bad song.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Stephen from Naglee Park says:
I still think it’s awful.
I read the articles in the Merc awhile back and forgot to write in: Is it just me, or is the Q-statue in Plaza Park even *worse* looking that it was before? Tell me tell me tell me we all agree it should be put to a more functional use: like a bulletin board or Free Graffitti Zone?
April 8th, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Drew Clark says:
there is something wrong here. empty storefronts and the button up club boy throwing up in front of them.
walking down First
See some advertising for luxury
highrise
condominiums
smiling white stock photography teeth
sexy views
kidney shaped pools
what city does that skyline belong to?
shining spires
fingers feeling for
heaven as far the eye can see
that is not what I see
looking out falcon style
from the top floor of
Martin Luther King
what eye. see
Vacant. Buildings. Decaying
Victorians. Trees. Smog.
uncanny valley of the heart’s delight
April 10th, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Back After 11 years says:
A tough night
We watched the Sharks at Caravan. This place is crowded with people who are the age I used to be. I drink one too many beers.
Dinner at La Vic. The new on Santa Clara. Cleaner.
But all the cars and noise and jerseys and boozy people felt funny.
First I thought: how vibrant.
Then I thought: how demented.
I wake up at 2.00 with that whirly feeling and wonder where I am.
April 18th, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Susie Murillo says:
It’s pointless to point out that the trees are all new, the high rises empty, and the restaurants full of toxins.
Wind-tousled clouds scud above the mountains.
The cupola still stands.
I like how the transience of new city things
Here seem so, well transient
And the mountains and the 20s buildings still stand
Silent, watching, with a disdainful eye
April 18th, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Back After 11 years says:
Come here my friend let us sit together
Here by the percolation ponds
With the clouds flirting with the top of the ride
And the ducks and geese and fisherman and bikers
And try to remember that day when we came up here on the bus
Walked the rest of the way
We smoked pot by the Portapotties
Talked about girls
And fell asleep on the picnic tables
Looking up at the hawks, circling.
April 19th, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Roger the Baron says:
To the barrista at the Naglee & Park Starbucks
You wore your glasses today, which makes you look a little bit more like an undergraduate, or at least someone who rushed to work without having time to put on their contact lenses.
April 19th, 2011 at 8:44 PM
Chris says:
Bent on some urgent errand I started driving to the OSH on San Carlos and forgot why just as I turned into the parking lot. So I bought glue and flowers. And that sad Keane song was on the muzak while I waited in line.
April 19th, 2011 at 8:49 PM