St. Augustine – Camping

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“Camping in St. Augustine”

Oldest city, Fountain of Youth still elusive old. Horse drawn carriages carry glitter hooves. Canvas walls, rain falling on blue and white Coleman costly canvas. Checkered yellow plastic table cloth table damp for eating peeling BBQ shrimp. Oak tree fire burning blue and red hard to keep lit hot. Saw Palmettos in the shadows of the lights of night look like African bush. Photos of Pleiades taken between forecasted cloud bursts blown. A vest man plays the violin alley smiling. Banana spider webs woven between trees make explorers careful. Fear faced in legs when eyes close. Frogs sleep in Coontie berries red with Skinks. Pecans like gunshots when cars hit. Acorns fall at Zero Mile by Spanish fountain. Plastic fruit at roadside robbery road missed. Jesus on a palm tree on I-95, Jesus on license plate at Taco Bell. Oyster wall, Coquina rock, Datil pepper alligators farm. Telephoto evenings expose dappled sunlight morning warmth. Homes of dreams turn the century. Wind sends leaves and owls. Arms of present hold tight the light. Mahi moments move beyond drawbridge Yellow Fever cemetery symmetry. Faces faced with campfire breath. River sunset with Cannondale chatty campers. Ticks and bird calls on poster posted. A boxer named Wizard with big paws eyes from Daytona. Friends find no fallacy in fire. Birds booze in budding blossoms. Breeze brushes hair on end beauty. Patient purpose life moves slow clockless sweet.

Daft Punk Live Changed My Life (1)

I came anxious
panic of masses
people ear to ear
eye to eye
“face to face”

but when green
light touched –
singled me out
I heard it —
this is no place
to hide

so I shed black
for light
of any color

my switch was
flipped

Daft Punk Live Changed My Life (2)

we are one
hand
moving
a generation
of lost
found
in beats
and cameras
held
above heads
lights pump
goosebumps
through sweat

Daft Punk Live Changed My Life (3)

singing reverb
cell phones held
to heaven
capturing bass
this slab of concrete
Bicentennial Park
in Winter
our stage
a slice of freedom
each of us
alone in a sea
of 25,000
and I let the light in
opened my mouth
to every synth from
pounding pyramid
moved feet and
arms and teeth
and hips
like transcending skin
ready to merge

Daft Punk Live Changed My Life (4)

the god of unity
wrapped his legs
around each of us
and we touched
vibrated
did lines of bass

i was sober
on water
out of my mind
on dance

and when people
find jesus i wonder
if it feels like…
like ninety minutes
of soul orgasm

screaming, tears
seizure of sound
a lifting up
into speechless
consciousness

shuddering through
class and race
sex and complex
I let it come
become
I became love
and paid it forward
in gum

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