Category: New Arts & Letters from SF Bay Area & Beyond

film star Dennis not
Edward Hopper appliquè
his deep sea dive brush play

pulsing light & shadow blodgets
over diners in Chop Suey
edging out modernity
a marinade kablooey

gruffly puffing cigarettes
tapping mystic slats
characters on dingy platforms
sporting porkpie hats

trumpets nonpareil
the sketchiest of scenes
Nighthawks talks and walks
a storybook uh dreams

evokes fantastic monkeyshines
an empty sky okay dapples it a snappy way
heark’ning back to Nyack
a Cape Ann shore line channeled

Hopper’s curious & audacious
windswept daubs remind
float the mind blowingly vast
azure sea of time

 
© 2023 by bob plainwilder
 
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More bob plainwilder poems:

–a san francisco beat (this one’s dedicated to all the visionary painters out there)
–a spiritual muckrake (dedicated tor artists interested in free speech and making social progress thru art)

tell you what my brain is
out there on some windswept corner
dripping silver rain

layin low wit la dee dah
storybook gypsy rose lee

nothing but grandiloquent
she goes on inducing me
to contemplate a ne’er do well
crablike crawl across da sea

rolling up me ultra fuzzy joint
wit inky mystery
backlit by some har dee har
razor tin rocket car

an interplanetary clown
i spacewalk down a boulevard
heady somehow carving footprints in da margin’s edge
flippantly i postulate in a far out bar
ricocheting utterwhirldly
sparks frum my guitar

weisenheimer stains on shoit
emblematic righteous doit
not a schmendrik really
messy boiling down a white hot seat

tony rice a roni
da san francisco beat

 
© 2023 by bob plainwilder

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More bob plainwilder poems:

–edward hopper appliquè (this one’s dedicated to all the visionary painters out there)
–i grew up a muckrake (dedicated to artists interested in free speech and making social progress thru art)

Stan at Soho Zat selling Bad Newz
fanzines from a spinner rack —
10 or 20 every ish
Stan turned round reliably

Stan would actually pay
an EZ going operator
out there in his way

before social internet
Zat supported youth culture
moving comic books & zines…
no mobile phones then!

that place just a memory
packed in Soho Zat,
arcane klumps of history…
celebrating that!

 
© 2021 by bob plainwilder
 

More bob plainwilder poems:

–edward hopper appliquè (this one’s dedicated to all the visionary painters out there)
–me, a teenage muckrake (dedicated to artists interested in free speech and making social progress thru art)