The View From My Upstairs Window

5 comments

  1. Rosegarden Dad says:

    I can remember as a kid looking out over the flat San Fernando Valley to the lavender San Gabriel Mountains. Now, I see the flat Santa Clara Valley and the green Santa Cruz Mountains. With the holy Western Appliance neon fork punctuating the landscape.

    October 12th, 2010 at 3:06 PM

  2. ellen rosen says:

    Well, RGD, I had a second floor bedroom, too, growing up in Portland. But instead of those craggy California Coast Range mountains, I had a cloud-enshrouded Mt. Hood peaking out like some weird Japanese woodcut. But I mostly remember the pitched roofs of Portland. Now, I see tiled roofs and solar panels.

    October 12th, 2010 at 10:44 PM

  3. Roger The Baron says:

    The top of the sycamore tree is getting crinkly. The Diablo Range peeks through the apartment houses and is brown and dry. If I crane my neck just right I can see hwy 101.

    October 13th, 2010 at 5:48 PM

  4. Just Moved Downtown says:

    You can see the empty lightrail cars. The tops of the office buildings. The way the valley flattens out to the north. And those planes looking like they’re dive-bombing the Guadalupe River.

    October 14th, 2010 at 12:00 AM

  5. Drew Clark says:

    I am poor
    Or rather a working
    Class artist with paint
    Tangled in hair
    It gets cramped
    With canvases
    And wood
    Easels competing
    With my couch
    And my bed
    My studio is my home
    And where I live
    Upstairs windows
    Up the rent
    by another grand

    October 15th, 2010 at 3:46 PM