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SHASTA CITY (logging and spirit)
May 25, 2001/ Has Beans, coffee house
Shasta City, 1:57pm west of Mtn. Shasta
Dedicated to the people and sasquatch
'the watcher' and those who travel the realms of Blake.
Especially to Katrina Andrews, on the road under
the mountain, before the view takes shape.
by Sam Brevard
engineer: John C. Morrison
for, Noh Gallery Productions, Santa Rosa, California...
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Shasta City, logging and spirit,
what watches is human and animal
before the Mtn., monstrous being of karma,
we come and go for an unfathomable reason.
52 years later, butterflies cross
thru the forest, angry or sad depending on
what has happened. Reality immediate,
the air, sky, 100 feet, 10,000 miles.
Marcel Proust Heaven, where all is
delectable and described in delicious detail.
Dinner or loving. Have to loose a few pounds.
The painting is done of Mtn. Shasta and guides.
Waitresses are single and have one to
three children. Many tattoos here and dry
faces from lifestyle to the sun, skiing
or hiking, flying ice can sever your head.
Bunny Flat, base of registered Mtn. Shasta,
weather condition, sunny with cloud, left over
snowpack, yellow jacket underground meadow
at 7000 feet, chicadee gets nest materials.
Trail turns to slush, 100 ft Gemine
sugar pine i stand in, tuning fork.
Back down the road, sunroof open we watched a
cloud beneath rainbow anatomy above us.
Old McCloud Road from heart of town,
up through urban forest to the nouveau
riche acquiring real estate, then desolate
national forest where feelings come alive.
Cross the railroad tracks into
National Forest, Black Butte Mtn. points into
the sky, we are being watched, more so at
night, where one must depart quickly.
But during the day, safe yet being
observed, scars of logging, weird
drug memories in the dusty road and in a
hidden pine grove a child's
'Fisher-Price' etch-a-sketch hanging
on a tree with UFO drawn on
the cracked dry screen- "We are
watching you"....it says. We leave.
The friendly sad mountain lion death.
The white-bearded, suited man with a white poodle
at 11,000 feet appreciating rice cakes. Clouds
which showed themselves to a few, the stories.
People who have travelled the world,
stay here. This is a second chance for some.
Family, friends, school or loner. Remote View
'the watching'; natural, animal, spirit.
052501
'Has Beans', Shasta City, California.
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(c) John C. Morrison, 2001