Showing posts with label Emerald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emerald. Show all posts

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Bench Docks

Earlier this year, while padding along a pristine sidewalk in a Central Bench industrial zone, a profound realization struck me. It's relevance and application eluded me, however. But now, after seven months of percolation, rumination and even some fermentation, a tangible product has bubbled to the surface. Upon cursory glance, it's your garden variety experimental mixed-media dock poem. But I look at it as an unclassifiable article with a consciousness unto itself. I served, perhaps, as a mere conduit to give it perceivable form in our limited plane of understanding. Regard:

"Emerald Corridor -- Feb. 18, 2013"

A trek to "work"
A trek back "home"
And along the way
an exploration of
seams to reveal
liminal fixtures...


...fixations remain 
even 
livery arranged...


...context cropped
from hodgepodge, opportunities
in whimsical voids...  



...narrow verdant portals
welcome narrow
verdant cadavers...


...a flashing-clothed spur
eyes an un-
trodden inverse environ...


...delving...



...emitting...


...pending ascension tempered,
airing warily outside...


...to scrape along
on toes... 


...of unacknowledged 
mettle.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Bench Docks

Who can say they are bored when so many undiscovered sensory stimuli are out there just waiting to be found? There is always something to unearth, even in those places we consider most familiar. I experienced this earlier today, while walking along Emerald Street near the old railroad spur. An all-together peculiar loading dock revealed itself to me, and although hitherto unknown in my limited envelope of consciousness, I'm sure it's had and will continue to enjoy a long and storied life. Behold:


Note the unconventional truck-height-bumper/at-grade hydraulic-lift/recessed-bay-door combo. A dock is a dock is a dock!