Detroit - Michigan Theatre

When I visited The Girl last summer, I stumbled onto the remains of this theater, a 1926 French Renaissance palace, now a parking garage guarded by a fierce security guard. I sweet-talked her into letting me in for about 45 minutes and managed not to get assaulted or fall through the floorboards... 

Joshua

Joshua Tree National Park, April

Masked

Mardi Gras and ancient grace…a metal-masked warrior on the shores of debauche, 
French Quarter, 

a spring day, on the shores of somewhere different we'd hoped to be...

 

Ivy Mask B

I was once the emperor of leaves and you the empress of trees. And we pressed our arboreal hands together and fell…

face forward into fall

Accident Montage 3

Driver down 

with wings that float heavenward 

and eyes that will ever recall…

5 strokes 

that altered fate that altered god that altered time.

Accident Montage 2

And I dreamed I was flying. 

I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly…

and looking back down at me, smiled reassuringly…

Accident Montage 1

The desert strips bare and breaks into parts 

that hang on a cross beside a bleeding heart 

scourge’s strokes against naked flesh…..

obeisance an ancestor to obey