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)