Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Golden State: Unreliable Narrator








The seasons are more than they seem.

Who would have thought the dogwood tree in

such wild flower would sliver

away into such a sickly state?



It’s something to anticipate. The direction, once begun, is

always down. The soundtrack contains

a note or two,

a melody there, then loses time.

The end is severe. Weren’t there

a few golden moments near the summer river?

Those dissolve.



The same song plays over in your mind.

An innate understanding of what

rewind means. Back where we started,

as a bridge is built from both sides at

once.



Every story needs one. Some are reliable

and hold up in high winds, swaying with the weather,

at the same instance others collapse in the water,

sheared metal, different bodies falling, waves across and up the shore.



The narrator lets the characters go.

Knowing the Golden Gate is named for a passage

and not the color of the span.

This is important to know for

it was painted to blend in with the

hills around. It takes a certain

kind of grace to be less sight than sound.

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