Water Colors
slowly up the canal
Chinese paper boats
water-write characters
hummingbees buzz secure
in the company of spiders
feather fathers move beyond
Maine rocks and
quietly watch water
slap against the stones
of a weathered inn
shells line the sill
alongside candle-dripped bottles
door slams
like ship boom lowered
a frame around one star
lends to the self of solitude
standing in the center of a cold space
the painting lacks emotion, warmth
petals with thin blue veins
light condensed
figures out of place
like a seaplane over the desert
I am a former student of CCSF. I attended City in the late 60s. My writing was included in the 1968 issue of FORUM and I was editor of the 1969 issue of FORUM. I taught for CCSF for 34 years. My poem, “Flag Poem”, is currently featured in the exhibit “History of FORUM Magazine” in the Rosenberg Library.
Forum Literary Magazine 