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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Depreciation

November 12, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Traffic scene through windshield

Driving
with the check engine light on
because auto repair
is grand theft

Like most of the middle class
I’m being written off
road   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Surfing Lessons

November 5, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Surfers

Meditate on ocean
before hitting surf
let the break find you

Calculate the interval
between sets

Keep your stick
pointed toward breakers
when paddling out   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Eating the Worm

October 29, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Chicano Park mural with Chunky Sanchez

Señor Trump shouldn’t drink Mezcal
Because the gusano
is an arduous laborer
with an appetite for politician’s brains
which explains
the wall his party
hallucinates around Mexico   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Losing Voices

October 22, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Rocks surrounding small pool of water

Voices
Are dropping down throats

Bands of gold
swallowed by darkness   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Leaf in River

October 15, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Leaf floating in clear stream

Falling in forest
floating upon sun’s gold leafed
treetops whirling home   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Heirloom

October 8, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Heirloom screenshot

Nothing
for water to consume
nor wind to disseminate

No bone to char
nor ash for earth   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Walking Into Big Sur

October 1, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Dew in grass

A woman
is reading poetry with her hands
stanzas written into cliffs
before human beings walked upright

She combs beaches
retracing emotions
ocean drew out of sand   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Rules of the Road

September 24, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Approaching train and gas station

There are exits
nobody can open

When calls for help
echo unanswered
break the door
set yourself free
  [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Beneath the Bixby Bridge

September 17, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Sandy beach between two cliffs

Beautified Kerouac
lost his mind
in a cabin beneath the Bixby Bridge

Sleeper waves
wash the grey matter up
onto beaches from Big Sur to Mendocino   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Thunderbird Blues

September 10, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

"Thunderbird Blues" YouTube video screenshot

The progressive run
through Yosemite’s gridlocked valley:
a modulation of the redwoods and granite
slide-slipping down Tioga Pass

The diving elevation
composed as haiku on paper bags–
a sure sign poets were at the wheel   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Manzanar

September 3, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

Origami cranes at Manzanar internment camp

10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s

Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos   [Read more…]

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Geo-Poetic Spaces: Backfire

August 27, 2016 by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes

View of sky through pine trees

Ashes on car windows
Big Sur is burning

Roads closed
evacuation imminent

Trapped
in the apocalyptic
centrifuge of helicopter blades
slashing
fire retardant sun   [Read more…]

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