Vista Point
Pan down from vast
Baby blue sky
Low horizontal clouds
Over brown haze
Outside one can make out
Downtown skyscrapers
Come closer and see
Colorado Boulevard buildings
Looking like a village
Surrounded by trees
Just below the foothills
Houses, backyards, pools
Matchbox cars parked
On the gray veins
Wooden telephone poles
Veer away from hills
On the dusty trail
Groups of morning walkers
Sweaty steady runners
Water bottle equipped hikers
Wear wide brimmed
Earth-colored hats
A father carries young
Son on his shoulders
White bearded man leans
On a crooked cane past
Agave cacti, shrub roots
Run alongside cliffs
Hybrid butterflies dance
Around purple thistle
Bee flies dart into/
Out yellow mustard
Spot a long spotted
Lizard in the brush
An empty Capri Sun
Packet on the path
Clear plastic sandwich
Bag at the edge
Torn portion of 500 count
Bath tissue farther away
Cobalt beer can rests
Amidst the bushes
Head Lines
The Egyptian Army
dissolved parliament
without me
Arcade Fire
won a Grammy
without me
Governor Brown considered
a Supreme Court appointment
without me
The Lakers lost
to the Magic
without me
(but I was watching
from a bar
in Montecito)
Poets performed
in Pasadena
with me
(only I don’t see
that in the newspaper
for some reason)
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