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Gazing
A woman in a blue blazer with her jet-black hair fashioned in a bob, walks through the parking lot to join her friends at the tavern for happy hour. The power steering from a Toyota RAV4 whines. The crowd gurgles off in the distance from the unseen outdoor patio. A man walks out of his car, head buried in phone, clueless to his surroundings.
A couple of guys walk by, the man on the left is big, muscular with thick thighs and bulging biceps. His company is the opposite. Skinny legs and arms that pale in comparison. A bald man and his brunette companion put take out dinners on the roof of their sedan, a Super High Output Ford Taurus, white. The smell of steak on the grill permeates the air, the sound of traffic forever in the background, never resting.
Motorcycles scream, big trucks let out their guttural sounds from tricked out mufflers, and I write. Only it isn’t writing as much as it is tapping on a piece of glass. A black bird flies through the frame of the vanagon windshield just as a surly face behind the wheel of a gold Toyota truck comes barreling around the corner. He’s lucky no kids are wandering around as he would smash whatever unlucky soul stepped out in front of him, the kind of guy who runs over squirrels and bunnies on purpose, your basic asshole.
A man with fancy sunglasses perched on his head rifles through the dumpster looking for boxes. He is wearing a grey golf shirt. The asphalt lot is surrounded by chain restaurants and other strip mall fare. Lil’ Ricci’s Pizza, Cuba Cuba Sandwiches, Floyd’s Barber Shop, Espresso Americano, Bam Bu, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Scotttrade, Half Hour Power and Lyons Den Liquors.
This is the Denver Tech Center, the belly of the corporate beast and these people are the employees who work for it.
A couple sit in a car behind me laughing into their phones. A girl in baby blue shorts strides through the lot, her pony tail bouncing behind her, scantily clad in a tank top.
I wonder if she’s freezing because it’s cool and windy and I’m sitting here in a hoodie. Watching the world go by, waiting impatiently to get on the road. Waiting for the eighth of May, the day when this family leaves the Mile High City.
Cigarette Butts and Pigeons
grates made of iron
cigarette butts and pigeons
a weathered sidewalk
I-70 East
ABILENE,KS-December 21,2014-A flock of birds flies over I-70 East. This stretch of interstate freeway through Missouri and Kansas is where The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways was born. The network of highways took 35 years to build and is over 47,000 miles long, the second longest freeway system in the world.
I-70 East
an engineering marvel
old U.S. 40
Staring at the birds
DENVER,Colo-August 9, 2014- A pigeon flys through the frame on a walk down Colfax Avenue. The street cuts a 26 mile path east-west through the metro area. In the 1800’s it was a prime destination for Colorado’s wealthiest inhabitants.
At a loss for words
Walking the streets all alone
Staring at the birds
Illuminating
streetlight in Denver
a beacon in the dark sky
illuminating
If humans grew wings
would our buildings scrape the sky?
could we learn to fly?
A Solitary Bird
elaborate tag
anonymously famous
put.a.bird.on.it.
I have seen this one by SPARO on two seperate doorways.
Perception 
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