City Sharman

Cinematic Poetry collaboration by Laurence Fuller and Roy Eisenstein I first met Roy Eisenstein on the edge of the city in Los Angeles, where the sea washes up against the Metropolis and brings with it ghosts, sunshine, sand, water, and time. I wrote poetry everyday by the pier, drinking coffee. As the pages flcked by; I noticed a man each morning with a hat and glasses handing treats to dogs as they walked past. All the owners would greet him and he sat by the doorway of a cafe I would frequent. Coffee and conversations ensued as he told me stories of his time in Vietnam ~ thoughts of broken windows and raisnstorms, and a life dedicated to writing. He would send me the poems he'd written that day and I shared my cinematic poetry. Out of that came City Shaman. CITY SHAMAN traffic stains horns blaring crowded sidewalks alone the city shaman must always descend before rising into a thinner atmosphere where dreams can breathe flying solo missing human embraces soft kisses body warmth shared still the quest is always the quest the holy grael golden fleece answers to questions creating a map a diagram of how to navigate through this labyrinth of thoughts feelings how empty a pocket misplaced or lost memories hours wasted asleep in this urban circus where madness is the cure Janus waits at the gates holding keys A poem of fate fading moon that sunk evils of the night before into salt and sea opaque in the daylight so I descend down to the roots up through the tree to the leaves and then the ethers not sure if I’m leaving or coming home