Willowwood Garden August 2, 2016

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Hacklebarney August 2, 2016

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going places

I have never been to most of the places I have seen

Remembered scenes like snapshots in a dream

Perhaps in a movie or some painting or photograph

Commingled memories wandering my inner world.

Going to a new place looking around taking photographs

Framing landscape images as if projected from within

I point and shoot rapidly recognizing compositions

Capturing iconic views when I don’t think twice.

Some places are familiar to millions of people

Like the cityscape streets and buildings of New York

Shown as the backdrop in so many screen dramas

Happening in the same space so many of us traverse.

The production crews were an aggravation to me

Parking their trailers bumper to bumper blocking streets

When I was a delivery driver needing to get on the block

I once yelled at Woody Allen walking past on the Bowery.

Those days I imagined being able to travel to other homelands

Visiting the countries of the immigrants I met on my route

Enjoying the diversity experienced in a world city

Swimming in the sea of people living our lives together.

Now I have time and the means to go around the world

I find so much to see and do so close to my doorstep

Where I have everything I need or want in this life

The trips I might take another day glimmer on the horizon.

I travel around in my memories

To times and places that have flown past

Effortlessly getting there like teleportation

The most pleasant way to travel.

Mill Creek Marsh July 31, 2016

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