not every restaurant that attracts celebrities
has an attitude

O Hotel Bon Port! (1954)     O Florence

See for yourself how the small lichen is
the only garment on the boulder

It's hot, humid midday

a man & another
get into their car in

a dense circle of shade
under a small tree

we went to a terrible place
we tried all the restaurants
there wasn't a celebrity in the mob
tho the swimming pool was filled with lava

rock from the car stereos played along the river wall

"I have no dry ice!" complained the DJ
the onlookers seem as enraptured as they did
hours ago

What is the purpose of a dik-dik?

it often took the whole day to get 1 print right
manipulating the work tremendously in the darkroom
the idea of inner emptiness    was devastating then

being inside the construction's hot white blinding scorched
itinerary    light nips at our heels passports    pinned to our underwear
      an odd detail of stamp-sized portraits

the word "kangaroo"      in the aboriginal language
simply means  "I don't understand."