A week before tomorrow a past life found me in a smoke free bar on life's boulevard watching FIFA soccer on a fifty two inch flatscreen. I finished my extra dry martini with two olives stirred, not shaken and left for the be-bop time of smokey jazz clubs in dark basements below the sad city of lights. The horn man blew his wailing melodies to our despondent generation who gave their souls to words and sutras . . . we dressed in black. Our deep dialectics were concerned with slow time when the tribe of hedonists gathered for alcohol for drugs for sex for pleasure in the cold room flat above the shop keepers shop. Our poetry played the crazy rhythm of the jazz free discourse that fed us our left over life free of mammon's rules. I returned from my fantasy past life trip to an extra dry martini with two olives shaken, not stirred and FIFA soccer still nil - nil on a fifty two inch flat screen. And I went home to my cold room flat above a shop keeper's shop to write a new sutra of that time when life was still free.
Happy Geese and Ducks
The Backdoor
It was a foggy frosty morning when I took this picture. It reminded me of a poem I wrote a few years ago.
I walked out the backdoor of my life into desolate bleak grey snow blending into a steel grey sky — with no beginning, with no end. No shadows defined my place in this universe of horizonless space — nothing moved as all were petrified like a garden of lifeless stone. I wandered away into emptiness — an unforgiving frigid desert lost to visual perspective — searching for a lost memory. In a far distance that did not exist I heard a coyote scream her hunger.
Snow Patterns
These are some photos I took in our back yard.
A Rewrite . . .
I have the second book (tentatively titled, Sunset in Paris) of a series ready for review, editing and publication which is a sequel to my first, San Juan Sunrise. Since this will now be a two book series I decided to go through San Juan Sunrise again and I ended up doing a complete rewrite, which, I believe has made it a much better read,
The upshot of all this is that the revised edition of San Juan Sunrise should be republished, possibly by summer 2023 and followed by the sequel, Sunset in Paris, maybe in Fall or early winter 2023..
So stay tuned for updates on the progress and availability for book one and book two. Jenny’s adventures are more exciting now in San Juan Sunrise and even more so as she travels to Paris and meets some interesting new characters including a famous Formula One race car driver.
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