Terra-formed

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From The Blue Room

A Red Shouldered Hawk in Friday repose at the back of the Berry Petroleum building in Bakersfield, Calif. Berry, was a successful Klondike gold miner with an interesting history. I've more digging to do.

The bird likes the place!


Terra-formed

Fall goes on never getting round to winter

Daily battalion of yard warriors

are blowing leaf beds

and raucous unlikely blossoms

circle wind cracked trees

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My coffee's cold

sweet and dark as the view

spangles of ice glint from air-conditioning units

while the furnace won't, yet

bubbled asphalt slows the plastics and aluminum man

who's chilled and wrapped, moving

beneath an ancient order of Turkey Vulture

and parrots, squawking their garish circles

Climate confusion melds the unlikely

in this stratified desert city

Remarkably, it seems to keep working