Psychoanalysis Of The Plant - 12/05

Plant, originally uploaded by levari.

unexpected poem

(for some of us)

"There are
no
frivolous moments
this
time of year."

-Judd Trichter

Famous Gambler, 2007

Famous Gambler, 2007, originally uploaded by levari.

Famous Gambler, 1937

famous gambler, 1937, originally uploaded by levari.

Profile - 3/07

Profile Of A Girl - 3/07, originally uploaded by levari.

Metamorphoses

...My soul would sing of metamorphoses,
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes.

-Ovid

Staring At The World Through His Rear View

Staring At The World Through His Rear View, originally uploaded by levari.

Los Angeles @ 3:13 (down on low)

Los Angeles @ 3:13, originally uploaded by levari.

"Los Angeles, come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town."

- John Fante, "Ask The Dust"

the subtle, quiet policy of scorched earth

Unroll our history and,
yes, it's true:
we have lost much country
in each other,
to each other;

more than can ever be
remembered,
much less written down

(even if old Homer
was still around.)

Slashed and burned the landscape out mercilessly,

ripped the dogs from the porches
and the babies from their cribs
as we marched through,
no regrets/no remorse,

sometimes continue to,

(for this is all animals with our stripes
ever know how to do.)

But somehow,
through all our battered hands
and sutured, unbleachable selves;

through all these useless, no longer fitting feet
we have left in our wake

we have yet to surrender
an eye lash, a toe nail,
a bone, or a dawn

to any of them.

Boulder, Colorado - 11/07

Withdraw - 1994

Withdraw - 1994, originally uploaded by levari.