Jericho Beach Mid May
out on the bay
kite surfers, tankers
no smoke haze yet
heat dome
early days
two Canada geese
pose for an Instagram shot
necks extended rod taut
at their feet a gosling
proud parents
they bob their heads
like ageing rock stars
Brendan and Sherry , the creators of the now defunct earthweal have a new website. It’s called Desparate Poets
Check them out!
This Sherry’s challenge:
What makes you feel desperate where you live? What is changing? What is being lost? How is “Progress” making inroads on your landscape, and how do you feel about it? Give us a snapshot. It can be as broad as a seascape, a desert, a teeming city. Or it can be the opposite: finding comfort in the beauty around us, whether it is as vast as the sky or as small as a dew-covered spider-web, on a cornstalk by the back fence in the early morning.
Stopdraggingthepanda 
You capture that strange feeling when the world appears to frozen in time when the heat mounts.
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Desperate Poets is Brendan’s brain child, Jim. I am so happy he created it and we still have a place to gather……..I just will contribute from time to time……..I always loved Jericho Beach, which used to have a bit wilder feel to it than other beaches. I love the photo and this glimpse of the beach, the gosling and proud parents. I wonder why there is only one gosling but will try not to go there. Smiles.
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Good to hear from you Sherry!
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A nice snapshot and anticipation of what’s to come that is not so nice.
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Mick and Keef as Geese perhaps in a strange and dark insta story?
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Now there’s an idea!
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Like those geese bobbing their heads like rockstars!!!
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Marvelous from start to finish but especially the aging rock stars line!
–Shay
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Thanks Shay!
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Been too long since I read you, Jim. This is such a clear, sharp snapshot of living visuals, of what persists in every iteration that encompasses it through the long cycles of historic time, even our poverty-stricken now. Great to see you hanging with the desperate ones.
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Thanks Joy! Good to hear from you!
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Hi Jim, I’m kind of fading out with Social Media, WP is looking like once or twice a year. I always enjoy your work when I visit, love the imagery here and the incisiveness of the following piece. I suppose the world will end in confusion and chaos, but there’s none that where the panda is held correctly. Best wishes, Steve.
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Good to hear from you Steve! Hope your writing and art projects are going well. I do miss your regular postings at “Inconstant Light” but I still check in! All the best,JIM
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Thank you, Jim. It’s been a long time hasn’t it? I do have a book coming out later this year, from an Italian publisher for a change, so I guess I’ll have to make a sock media effort then. Best wishes, Steve.
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