Abalone I

Photo of Knowland Park from web search (unknown photographer)

In the needlegrass field

          by the fairy ring -        
                                              
how much can change

                         in a month?

 The mossy 

                     evergreen tree

bulldozed by

rare
                  manzanita,

maritime chaparral,   

                              chamise.                            

A chestnut-backed 
chickadee
and a flicker 
escape from
prolonged 
solitude:
how to build a 
roundhouse
and land trust.
How to avoid
hopeless ness,

a draft.




Nina Simone's Feelin' Good: https://youtu.be/D5Y11hwjMNs

    Photo above from Save Knowland Park website

    10/22/15 photo of the top of Knowland Park (of the Oakland Zoo new development)