SOMEONE ELSE'S PHOTO ALBUM

A while ago I was wandering around the auction house downtown. I ended up focused on a photo album in a box. Testing the waters, I put in an absentee bid of ten dollars. I was surprised when I got the call to come pick up my purchase. And then I was surprised again because it came with a whole box full of other albums, all from the same family.

I realize that a family's collection of photo albums is a strange acquisition.

If you happen to know Louis or Clara or any of these people, I'm happy to bring their albums to them.

One of them is dedicated to a trip to Mazatlan in the Spring of 1978.








Pretty sure his wife is Clara but here he's traveling with Joyce.
Anyway it was the seventies.






However I plan to keep this picture of a fisherman throwing his net.













I think Louis was a councilor for the downtown Y.





























Remember travel clubs? Some people could do that gracefully. For a short time my family belonged to a travel club called the Jetaways. That was in southern California, so when we camped we slept on the beach. I don't believe we meshed well with the club, but I don't get that feeling from Louis's family. They make it look easy.




although, who all's in his family?






for children there's only this cat




unfavorites?



You had to wash a lot of cars for this trip to new york.
I like this early bike messenger style, nice road bike, nice crutches.







From here on it's about Louis and Clara.








or more specifically it's about Clara



looking like Astrid Gilberto



feeling it

r e a l l y ?



oh oh oh oh

when you don't wake up all the way all day and and it bums you out

there's a gay blade out in the new grass

playing leap frog with real frogs

arrange the frogs, yourself, the pond

barn owl is the barn yard

a germ bomb summer blockbuster

we don't deserve it

but they're slashing prices on costco caskets

come the new dance is the surfer summer

it's an easy one

a turn over

a fold under

anyone know this actress




in the victory scene toward the end of Norma Rae?

NOTHING IS UNSTABLE


he means nothingness

in this hot springs people are talking to each other
rapidly filling in the gaps to create their universe
they're pretty young it's mostly joy
the crowd is in and out of the steam cloud
over here is a large metal coil, like a static spring
you can climb it and I do
I am up a few rungs
stepping around slower people making way for faster
and I think oh good I like my swim suit
then I'm up high enough to die from the fall
I agree to be afraid only in my head and chest, not the limbs
and sort of stuff the adrenaline into my shoulders and hips
one cycle and it's cool
why did I want to climb?
there's no one up here not heaven either
possibly more hot springs
maybe those are snow monkeys or maybe trees

neuroplasticity, and books are a time travel

this interview opened the weekend

a heroic arc

say two words and make a pair

fire together wire together

where no pair was before

what's outside the universe

and what's outside that

or what does outside mean

collapsing funny