Jazz Surf
this riff
repeats drunken beat
on edge of mind
awakening
crazy urgency
for big fat horns
barking giant bullfrogs
summer sun blazing
shining down sunglass shades
& moonshine mugs
force fields
power up
as bodies undress dreaming
time traveling
easy as ancient aliens
without benefit
of machine
a chorus of
naked breasted wild women
raise voice, screaming
giving flight
for angel’s wings
huge tubas
explode bubblegum bubbles
on cracker edge
of crumbling universe
breathe, baby,
breathe punk rock comic book
molecules
some of them polluted
we’ll deal with it
in endless summers
of saltwater crashing
‘cross mud sweet shores
there is
laughter & fire
& fucking
there is a great white shark
playing a saxophone
as the sun explodes
in July
California fingers
grasshopper dance
on seashell trumpets
crying
for that
simple
intoxicating riff
surging
and that surf
each time
it pulls away
and rolls back home …
Bradley Mason Hamlin
is an American writer, veteran of the United States Navy, and alumni of the University of California, where poet Gary Snyder dubbed Hamlin “The Road Warrior of Poetry!” Hamlin was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, Nicky Christine, and their tribe of suburban children and wild cats. His latest book of poems, California Blonde, is available from Black Shark Press Click the cover above if you are interested in buying this book or just go here…