By: Michael Straker

Michael Straker — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:39:06 +0000

That band at center camp is “Good Heavens to Betsy!” Great stuff indeed. They’ve got some songs on YouTube, so check it out.

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By: Gary Walker

Gary Walker — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:39:41 +0000

I have never been to the Burning Man Festival, nor did I even know about it until recently. I have been on a different planet, called Italy and France, for the last 20 years. Now I am the manager of the Mariposa Hotel-Inn, at the western gateway to Yosemite.
Dateline 2010-09-09: a Sonia from Marseilles visited the hotel, full of Burning Man tales. Such an enchantress! I felt compelled to write a poem about Sonia [following]. If the poem warrants merit, can anyone suggest an appropriate “home”for it among the tree of Burning Man web branches & leaves?
My thanks to you in advance. –Gary Walker, gwlucca at yahoo dot com

Sonia and the Burning Man

A Sonia, where comes an angel, fallen from on High,
Materialized – SHAZAM! — before my registering Post
In uniform of backpack and glimmering of Eye
To query room and friendship at the Inn of the Host.

She had come from the land of a Burning Man,
She spun visions in words drawn from living Dream.
In exchange I traced stars on a hill built in Sand
Of constellations presaging all that she had Seen.

Gifting, a Sonia sang to me Encore:
Her mutant cars, as if from Mars, danced in a Faustian Past,
Where casual sex and nudity drew to a rocky Shore,
Until I begged my inner crew to lash me to the Mast.

That night I bid a Sonia self passage back to Sleep,
That night I tossed restless in her turbulence of Plans.
All stiff, alone, vexed to the bone by thoughts I should not Keep,
That night, all through that night, lay waste a Burning Man.

Mariposa, 2010-09-09, last updated 2010-09-14, a6

SONIA (etymology):
http://webspace.webring.com/people/ge/edgarbook/names/s/sonia.html

BURNING MAN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man

SHAZAM:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/shazam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics)

SIREN (a Sonia’s Faustian side):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren

MYTHODEA: MOVEMENT 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPruOorkPmY&feature=related

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