solstice is here/the candor line is open

solstice is here/the candor line is open

thump thump thump
state line speed bumps

little fake chalet idyllic
rich bungee jumping clique
patio chair lifts
moon struck overheated pools
casino ski jumps

thump thump thump
state line speed bumps

dusty gravel parking lot
the video store,the laundromat
beneath South Lake Tahoe submarine sign
store front with no ads
almost next door to a crummy liquor store
cigarette smokers out front
signal to me that this is the place
I already knew
where the candor line is open
where the amygdelic dice roll
brother Steve’s memory recast
in an eighties survivors tales
of Cal Expo acid rain/Pepperland
& coyotes two sharp teeth
in a room full of pain melding
reminding us of our part in the knife & cutlass party

thump thump thump
state line speed bumps

again the pine scent overhead, overhead
a ski run up the mountain
a stripe of white brilliant white so white of a stripe
against our ice blue sky
Sierra snow melts
reminding us
that without the intake of the sun’s rays
there is no pine scented forest.