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Night Walker, Crossing 20th St. at Dolores Street, San Francisco

Nothing more abstract, compelling and alone: the singular night walker. Is this primarily a Western, American phenomenon? The private eye; the determined, but broken hearted; or the man headed to the graveyard shift? Absolutely no buffer between figure & void, only the will to walk otherwise. As some might say, with a knowing edge, lots of luck.

Haptic: Sculpture #1, February 14, 2009

This one is the first experiment.

Obama Poster: House Window, Cumberland, between Dolores & Cumberland, San Francisco. From the Neighborhood Anthropology Series

Saturday evening, February 13, on the J-Church Trolley,
over the loudspeaker, the Driver - between stops - conducts
a little Rap:

A kind of pure poetry
He leaves the connections
to each of us.

Haptic: Stephen Motika, poet, reading at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, Februaruy 4, 2010.

Haptic: Bill Mohr, poet, reading at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, Februaruy 4, 2010.

Haptic: Superbowl, New Orleans 31. Indianapolis 17, February 7, 2010.

Great Game, Digital - moving the pens - Delight!

Haptic: Is there a horse & heart in my mother breathing, sleeping? 1.05.2010

Haptic: Diane DiPrima, Poet Laureate, San Francisco, Inaugural Address, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, February 2, 2010.

Wonderful primarily autobiographical talk with evocations of New York /America in the 50’s, and her arrival and life in 1960’s San Francisco, communal living, the Diggers, drugs, the Vietnam war, et al. A language dedicated to restoring and revisiting in lovely detail vital acreage in the City’s history. Plus proposals as to how she will use her poet position to participate in and involve all levels of the City from young children to seniors - readings and work shops. There she was looking regal sitting in a chair on the stage addressing the realm of all of us who - one way or other - serve the City’s muses!

Haptic: “Autumn Leaves”, Miles Davis on the Juke, Noe’s Bar in the late afternoon, my birthday, February 1, 2010.

The Bay Area is again awash with poetry readings & the haptic pen was happy to be out there ‘on register.’

Haptic: Brenda Coultas, poet, reading from The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations (Coffee House, Press) , Maude Fife Room,Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, January 28, 2010. Excavating the geo-cultural lines between Indiana & Kentucky, folk, contemporary & past; singing off the arteries, north & south, Civil War, abolition & not, the language lines colliding, dispersing, bones into gothic, gothic into bones; rhythm and intonation some kind of salvation. Charmed us!

Haptic: Wayde Compton, poet, reading, Maude Fife Room,Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, January 28, 2010. African-Canadian, mixed blood, from Vancouver - excavating the history of origins and shape. Love the sense & pleasures, no matter how racially ironic, of historical investigation.

Haptic: Dennis Tedlock, poet & translator, talking about and reading from his new UC Press book, 2000 Years of Mayan Literature; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, Friday, January 29, 2010. Tedlock is a man who has spent his life upturning and deciphering glyps into a corresponding, lyrical English translation. He is the Jerome Rothenberg of Mayan un-covery. He does it with much love, respect and attention. The daily life and the corresponding cosmographic parallels become very much alive. Magic mixed with real soup. The book is visually splendid. The work of a lifetime.