moon traveller herald

i. look at your anger - it is very menacing. like a billowing monsoon cloud - but if you go there it is just mist. likewise if you look at the thought of anger it will vanish like frost in the morning sun ii. sing to god with the harp-sing to him with the harp-sing to our king with the harp - sing to him with the harp-god is the king of the whole earth-sing to him with the arp played skillfully. iii. Nothing but love over there where jesus is, ohh Nothing but love over there where jesus is (help me say it) Nothing but love over there where Jesus is, I wanna go, I wanna go, ohh Wait a minute bring it down Listen iv. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”. v. Truly it is Y*u who fashioned them and Y*u know their nature: they are but flesh and blood; man comes from dust and to dust returns; he gets his food at the peril of his life; he is like brok...

Al smiles bravely, Jack looks confused, Jim is all knowing. Aug 2015, San Francisco, 7 Mile. One week ago. So great to see Al Smiley and his wonderful wife Bev. Who took this picture. Along with the essential curator of futuristic antiquity, Jim Augusta Haas. Al appears and I am happy. How did we get here? Jim Hass says I know just the place. 7 Mile. It was a long road here. And I get there early. So studiously use up time. I look at the nearby Cow Palace (Is this the ugliest building I have ever seen in my life? Is this where Goldwater was nominated? Hard t o comprehend.) So I drive up to the part of Mission that Google workers are still avoiding, and get a phone charger at a Walgreens, in case, y'know, someone wanted to call me. And go to 7 Mile. The legend is that this was a stage coach stop. Pony Expressionism. For all I know it was a station on the Canterbury Tales route, cause it has the scent of trouble and hope. But I sit in the corner, and then Jim appears in the othe...

Click on this link at right >>>   Big Work of Art Read.  For Jeff Hull

Ode on Jeff Hull Northeastern Installation   I be in my car in the morning going to work I be in my car in the morning going to work when i should chance upon a great installation of art. I went down the old avenue. Up where the Red Sox used to play. When Cy Young was the all-star. And Roosevelt was the dominating blade. I'd drive by drive by dirive by. And my eyes would start to play So I am sending you a big telegram in a rosy bygone song  Within a perished kaleidoscope upon old Nessie's tail. Seeing a: Spinning rock wheel in Navajo Abyss; Blue Notes dripping from a Skinny Guitar Being of Plasma; Capt America – Serialized – Stigmaticized – Blooped and –Shim Sham Shimmicized; Paisley Hulk rising dour in a cascade of loggerheads on Phoam beyond the Date of Expiration: Night hawk eye eyeing confetti prey; Amoebas Osmosing Amber, Fluffy marshmellow man on fi-o; Dirigibles colliding with ferris wheels in Eiffel's vortex...

taking a look back at a goof with Storify [ View the story "Gropius house in Lincoln." on Storify ]

We would all like it if the Bards would make themselves plane or we think we would. The poets however are not easily diverted from their high mysterious ways. A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground where warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom.poets pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzipped the veil from beauty but does not remove it. A poet other likelier is a trifle glittering . E.B. White, One Man's Meat. I think I like to be kind of you fill in the blank about poetry. I think I like the extraworld that emerges from some 'mystification'. I think I am at sea with this, so chancing upon EB WHite's comment, while pseudo summering near Hingham harbor, gave me a start.-JVaughan

Grab that bus I will wait until the day comes  i'll follow  all your capers.  I'll see you on a sunday bus or in the funny papers. -Jack Vaughan, 2015 Pic above C at Smithsonian Chicago bus exhibit Apr 2015