Candle light reflects

Candle light reflects
golden through my beer,
music fills the air…

Foggy morning, clinking cups

Foggy morning
in Big Sur, a crow
in a redwood tree…

***

Clinking cups,

we stir sugar

into our coffee.

- R. Cody -

Buddha touches Earth

Buddha touches Earth
beneath
giant Redwood tree…

***

Photographing spiders
my batteries
expire….

- R. Cody -


Castro Canyon on the old Drawf Canyon trail behind Deetjen’s.

A Prayer to the Forest Spirit

Forest spirit

give me leave

to walk beneath your trees.

Forest spirit

keep me clear

of Poison Oak’s triple leaves.

- R. Cody -

Castro Canyon on the old Drawf Canyon trail behind Deetjen’s

Fabio comes in

looking for a handout,
stays for chin rubs.

***

After midnight
Kerouac reads me
to sleep…

- R. Cody -


Fabio, of course, is a cat @ Deetjen's Big Sur Inn

Good morning Redwoods!

Good morning old dead bug
on the window screen!

***

Ants in the sugar
and maybe in our coffee,
stirred in for flavor.

@ Deetjen's Big Sur Inn

Dutch oven

wood burning stove, you squat
waiting by any name…

I feed you wood
you breathe flame.

***

Got the fire going
too well!
Open the windows!

- R. Cody -

@ Deetjen's Big Sur Inn

First time in New Room

open the window
Castro Creek rushes in!

***

Bottom of a fly
visible in detail
on the window screen.

- R. Cody -

@ Deetjen's Big Sur Inn

from the Notebook - Big Sur - Top Antique

Written in the guest book for Top Antique at Deetjen's Big Sur Inn:

11/4/03

Big Sur - Top Antique @ Deetjen's Big Sur Inn

Note to self:
You don't exist.

A few things that are real:

• These Redwoods dipping their roots in Castro Creek, reaching for the sun and not far short...
• Crows punctuating the wide blue sky above Cafe Kevah @ Nepenthe, sudden black dashes alighting to loiter near tables in search of food...
• Ladybugs thick upon The Tanbark Trail, so many uncountable millions that soon as the eye percieves their numbers covering the Redwood sorrell, the fallen trunks of trees, stalks and leaves of all the flora, it seems a single shiny set of red carapace wings is moving there among the wood...
• The jade pool swirling in sea foam @ Partington Cove...
• The gentle green fairie of Big Sur, even now growing up and under the eaves of Top Antique...
• The westering sun, touching a wind shaped Oak with fleeting gold...
• The light in my Sarah's eyes and Love above all.

But you already knew that!