HIGHLAND PARK SHADORMAS

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Highland Park Shadormas


Nestled
between Debs and Ox-
y College,
South Pass-Uh
and Mount Wash.,
Highland Park plug-and-plays
dry corridor-living.

San Rafa
Hills of nooks and shelves.
Brown Craftsmen,
Mission-style
section 8—Lummis from O-
hi-O, pioneer.

Land of Tramps—
bars spill out York. Fig.
gallops gin.
These channels
exceed most tread of bunga-
lows—stowaway toes.

Masonic
Chicken Boy, U.S.
Office Ma-
chine Arts, Crafts
exiles from city entre temps:
highest densities.

Shadormas
for your Spanish genes
for your burnt
sleep cycles
for blinds slicing white-hot shade
from another din.

2 council
votes distort our girth
mordida
collusion
rampant under Renewal,
both ways before led (this time.)


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Highland Park Shadormas


Rancho San
Rafael fissures
for the rent
the rent split
between family and
threat of friends,
abandoned couches.

Annexed and
annexed and taken
from the Spanish
from Mexkins
even Martians. Spoil the rod:
barrio bounty.

Why so man-
y hits and runs? Why
not slow down--
brake pads grind
brake pads shouldn’t save more lives
than bright bike corrals.

Christmas on
York proves barrios
feed themselves
choicest cuts.
The loam I cut is tender—
water-cut, old roads.

Doing the
wash on damn day off,
pyramid
dirty dishes
let’s hope el virus no me catch
unawares y que?

Elephant
Figueroa bones,
street horse trough,
Sycamore
Grove public bowling green lawn,
Sparklett’s oasis.


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Highland Park Shadormas


Let’s move in!
City’s first suburb
north of smog
arroyos
invaden tus neighborhoods
bien lomos.

Elephant
Figueroa bones,
street horse trough,
Sycamore
Grove public bowling green lawn,
Sparklett’s Oasis.

Arroyo
Street pole erection
Origin-
Al Libra-
ry, railroad tracks in flood sod,
detonated books.

Judson Art
School in Garvanza,
stained-glass shop
three brothers
regulated with fifteen
craftsmen at a time

Glassell Park
Hughes Aircraft, Chrysler
Air Raid Si-
ren, Optimist Home for Boys,
mud seeping through wall.

Patio
of grand Lummis Home
El Alisal
eon home-
stead to last a thousand years,
built by looking back.