TOM CLARK: night meditation in beat garden

New Orleans: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 September 2017

Jeff sessions of sweet silent thought thinks police should have bayonets

the better to spear you with

A man who loves him some police
night meditation in beat garden gets deep

steps falling apart as old man stumbles down them

into remembrance of things past repair bad balconies porches rails

lead out of town a ways then turn back lose you in the weeds and mud again chief

Dream beauty [Koreatown, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 September 2017

Orange balconies [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 September 2017

Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2017

West Wall of the Wupatki Ruin | by GC_Dean

West Wall of the Wupatki Ruin. North of Flagstaff, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 3 September 2017

Central Avenue. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 17 January 2017

sweet corn [Minnesota State Fair]: photo by Claire Brinberg, 3 September 2017

Beat Garden - #13 | by Monty May (OBSERVE)

Beat Garden - #13 [Iserlohn]: photo by Michael May, 18 August 2017

Texkoko 2014..: photo by Fermin Guzman, 18 December 2014

Harvey on my street. Most of earth's great cities are built in defiance of Nature. Mine is on a flat coastal plain, the shallow Permian beach, with big ditches called bayous throughout. [Candlelight Estates, Houston, Texas]: photo by Iggy and Stardust, 27 August 2017

Andrea Rivera Roberto, a 69-year-old woman who suffers from emphysema, sits next to a cot at a shelter set up at Berta Zalduondo elementary school during the passage of Hurricane Irma in Fajardo, northeastern Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Heavy rain and high winds lashed Puerto Rico’s northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 6 September 2017

Police patrol the area as Hurricane Irma slams across islands in the northern Caribbean in San Juan, Puerto Rico: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 September 2017

A woman looks at heavy surf as Hurricane Irma approaches Puerto Rico in Luquillo. #IrmaHurricane Photo @rarduengo: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 September 2017

#sunrise is seen through the rain in Cap-Haitien as Hurricane Irma approaches. Photo @hectorretamal: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 September 2017

Residents prepare for Hurricane Irma as it barrels toward the Caribbean with possible Florida landfall this weekend: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 September 2017

Waiting for Hurricane Irma in Puerto Rico... @rarduengo Via @AFPphoto: image via Roberto Re @RobRe62, 6 September 2016

Egyptian fans stand as the moon rises during the FIFA WCup 2018 qualification football match Egypt vs Uganda near Alexandria Photo Khaled Desouki: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 September 2017

Syrian children play with balloons in the rebel-held town of Douma. Photo Amer Almohibany: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 September 2017

North Korea celebrates its nuclear program in Pyongyang: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 September 2017

Soldiers cheer during a mass celebration in #Pyongyang for scientists involved in carrying out North Korea's largest nuclear blast to date.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 6 September 2017

President Trump meets Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, says Irma "not good." – at The White House: image via Andrew Beatty @AndrewBeatty, 6 September 2017

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer makes a point to President Trump at the White House. Photo: @alexwongcw: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 6 September 2017

Portrait of enabling, Mitch in full gawk. And of the unhinged, as #Trump barks 2nd and 3rd guesses at what he means. Photo @evanvucci #madseptember: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingTheix, 6 September 2017

Audience gathering at Tesoro Refinery in Mandan, ND for Pres Trump's tax cut speech at 305pm/CDT.: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 6 September 2017

Calls daughter Ivanka on stage. He quoted her as asking "Daddy, can I go with you," to North Dakota. She thanks ND for Trump win in 2016.: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 6 September 2017

Ends 40 min speech thanking people of ND "who have been so incredible to me." He won the state 63% to 27% over Clinton in 2016.: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 6 September 2017

President Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at Andeavor Refinery to promote his tax overhaul plan, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017 in Bismarck, N.D.: photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais, 6 September 2017

Press pooler @Jordanfabian reports AF-1 encountered "a good deal of turbulence" on approach to @JBA_NAFW, but landing was smooth: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 6 September 2017

Back-to-school time can be tricky for the Secret Service. “The kid wants you to be part of the woodwork.": image via NYT Politics @nytpolitics, 5 September 2017

Intimate #Ivanka pic at Congress picnic embodies @WhiteHouse as #Trump private playground. Photo @alexcw @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictues @ReadingThePix, 24 June 2017

Waiting for Hurricane Irma in Puerto Rico... @rarduengo Via @AFPphoto: image via Roberto Re @RobRe62, 6 September 2017

Equality: image via Michael Bennett @mosesbread72, 6 September 2017

The media is trying real hard to act like that ain't a handgun in his hand. Tobad they didn't do that to Alton Sterling. #MichaelBennett: image via ChoKage Uchicha @FatBoyChoji, 6 September 2017

Las Vegas police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill speaks during a press conference on accusations by Seattle Seahawks player Michael Bennett, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Las Vegas. Bennett has accused Las Vegas police of racially motivated excessive force in a Twitter posting saying he was threatened at gunpoint following a report of gunshots at an after-hours club at a casino-hotel.: photo by John Locher/AP, 6 September 2017

A young Rohingya refugee boy looks out from a torn blanket used as a wall at a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. The U.N. refugee agency said some 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled western Myanmar since the violence erupted on Aug. 25.: photo by Channi Anand/AP, 6 September 2017

Thousands of #Rohingya flee #Myanmar, pouring into #Bangladesh, amid tales of ethnic cleansing By @BernatArmangue: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 5 September 2017

Violence in Myanmar has forced almost 125,000 Muslim Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 September 2017

Members of Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority walk through rice fields after crossing the border into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, fleeing the latest round of violence to engulf their homes in Myanmar, have been walking for days or handing over their meager savings to Burmese and Bangladeshi smugglers to escape what they describe as certain death. The Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state has faced systematic persecution at the hands of the Buddhist majority for decades. The military junta that ruled the nation for decades stripped them of their citizenship. The democratically elected government under the leadership of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Aung San Suu Kyi has looked the other way as they have since been pushed into squalid camps in their own home towns and villages. For a people who have already lived through unimaginable horrors, including mass rapes and brutal killings decried by the United Nations, it seems as if the misery will never end. Exhausted mothers clutch listless infants. Catatonically terrified children cling to bone-weary fathers. Young children with blank eyes carry even younger siblings. As far as the eye can see, they trudge through treacherously deep mud, across rice paddy fields and past rain-swollen creeks into Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river on the border with Myanmmar, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. “Oh Allah, Oh Allah,” one family moaned as they waded Tuesday through the chin-high waters of the Naf River dividing the two countries. One panicking woman handed a 3-month-old infant to a taller man before she slipped momentarily beneath the murky water. For a terrifying moment, the man held the baby aloft with one hand as he steadied himself. Then as the woman remerged, the group moved on to the safety of Bangladesh on the opposite bank.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

An exhausted Rohingya woman arrives with her children at Kutupalong refugee camp after crossing from Myanmmar to the Bangladesh side of the border, in Ukhia, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. The family said they had lost several family members in Myanmar.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

Bodies of Rohingya women and children recovered by Bangladeshi villagers lie on a beach at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday. One of the many boatmen plying the Naf River amid the refugee crisis said he has ferried thousands of Rohingya over the last 10 days — an exodus he said was like nothing he’s ever seen.: photo by Suvra Kanti Das/AP, 31 August 2017

An exhausted Rohingya helps an elderly family member and a child as they arrive at Kutupalong refugee camp after crossing from Myanmmar to the Bangladesh side of the border, in Ukhia, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Fresh horror was unleashed on Aug. 25, when fighters of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked government troops and prompted Myanmar soldiers to retaliate with “clearance operations” they say were aimed at flushing insurgents out from Rohingya villages. The Myanmar government blames the insurgents for setting fire to their own homes and killing Buddhists in Rakhine. The exhausted and starving refugees pouring into Bangladesh tell a different story: of targeted shootings by Myanmar troops; of warnings to leave their homes if they wanted to live. And so they left. They abandoned all but what they could carry — a few kitchen utensils, a bag of rice, a tattered mattress.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

Newly arrived Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees scuffle for food rations near Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority members wait to enter the Kutupalong makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest countries, was already sheltering some 100,000 Rohingya refugees before another 123,000 flooded in after Aug. 25, according to the U.N. refugee agency’s latest estimate on Tuesday. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh in less than a week, with hundreds stranded in no man's land at the countries' border, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.: photo by Mushfiqul Alam/AP, 30 August 2017

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT: An injured elderly woman and her relatives rush to a hospital on an autorickshaw, near the border town of Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. The Rohingya woman encountered a landmine that blew off the right leg while trying to cross into Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An injured elderly woman and her relatives rush to a hospital on an autorickshaw, near the border town of Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. The Rohingya woman encountered a landmine that blew off her right leg while trying to cross into Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 4 September 2017

Two among three boats that capsized while being used by fleeing Rohingya is seen on the Bay of Bengal coast, after being recovered by Bangladeshi villagers at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug.31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday. Last week, a group of ethnic minority Rohingya insurgents attacked at least two dozen police posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state, triggering fighting with security forces that left more than 100 people dead and forced at least 18,000 Rohingya to flee into neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Suvra Kanti Das)

Two among three boats that capsized while being used by fleeing Rohingya are seen on the Bay of Bengal coast, after being recovered by Bangladeshi villagers at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug.31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday. Last week, a group of ethnic minority Rohingya insurgents attacked at least two dozen police posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state, triggering fighting with security forces that left more than 100 people dead and forced at least 18,000 Rohingya to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.: photo by Suvra Kanti Das/AP, 31 August 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority walk on a muddy river bank upon crossing a stream on a local boat after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Dakhinpara area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017.Last week, at least three boats capsized, spilling dozens of people into the brackish waters. Some managed to swim to safety, but at least 26 people drowned. Nur Kabir said he crossed the river on Sunday, and that many more have tried to swim the expanse on their own strength. “They try to cross the river at night and drown,” Kabir said. Some members of the Bangladeshi Border Guards, moved by the suffering around them, have interpreted the government’s silence about the refugee influx in recent days as approval for letting them in.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 2 September 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority family members walk on a broken road a day after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Dakhinpara area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are pouring into Bangladesh, part of an exodus of the beleaguered ethnic group from neighboring Myanmar that began when violence erupted there on August 25.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 2 September 2017

Ethnic Rohingya carry an elderly man and walk through rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Myanmar's military says almost 400 people have died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya. Advocates for the Rohingya, an oppressed Muslim minority in overwhelmingly Buddhist Myanmar, say hundreds of Rohingya civilians have been killed by security forces. Thousands have fled into neighboring Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 1 September 2017

Rohingya woman Rahima, left, sits with her six months old child Jewel at a temporary shelter after being detained by Bangladeshi border guards while crossing the Naf River to enter Bangladesh at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar have capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday. Last week, a group of ethnic minority Rohingya insurgents attacked at least two dozen police posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state, triggering fighting with security forces that left more than 100 people dead and forced at least 18,000 Rohingya to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.: photo by Suvra Kanti Das/AP, 31 August 2017

A Rohingya child, newly arrived from Myanmmar to the Bangladesh side of the border, stands by a wooden fence at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, was already sheltering some 100,000 Rohingya refugees before another 123,000 flooded in after Aug. 25, according to the U.N. refugee agency's latest estimate on Tuesday.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority members walk through rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are pouring into Bangladesh, part of an exodus of the beleaguered ethnic group from neighbouring Myanmar that began when violence erupted there on August 25. Most of Myanmar's estimated 1 million Rohingya live in northern Rakhine state. They face severe persecution, with the government refusing to recognize them as a legitimate native ethnic minority, leaving them without citizenship and basic rights.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 1 September 2017

Rohingya refugee women carrying their babies wait at a World Food Program distribution center near Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Newly arrived Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees scuffle for food rations near Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority refugees walk after crossing the Bangladeshi border near Cox Bazar's Kanjopara area Bangladesh, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

A Rohingya child is carried on a sling while his family walk through rice fields after crossing the border into Bangladesh near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017

A Rohingya Muslim child places a kiss on his mother's cheek as they rest after having crossed over from Myanmar to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 2 September 2017

Rohingya ethnic minority, who have just crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar, cook a meal near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Rohingya ethnic minority, who have just crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar, cook a meal near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 2 September 2017

A Rohingya boy, an ethnic minority from Myanmar, carries a sack of belongings on his head and walks through rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Myanmar's military says almost 400 people have died in recent violence in the western state of Rakhine triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya. Advocates for the Rohingya, an oppressed Muslim minority in overwhelmingly Buddhist Myanmar, say hundreds of Rohingya civilians have been killed by security forces. Thousands have fled into neighboring Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 1 September 2017

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority women bathe a week-old infant at the Kutupalong makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh in less than a week, with hundreds stranded in no man's land at the countries' border, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.: photo by Mushfiqul Alam/AP, 30 August 2017

Rohingya ethnic minority, who have just crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar, build makeshift tents near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 2 September 2017

Rohingya Muslims rest inside a new tent next to Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, was already sheltering some 100,000 Rohingya refugees before another 123,000 flooded in after Aug. 25, according to the U.N. refugee agency's latest estimate on Tuesday.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 25 September 2017

Smoke and flames in Myamar are seen from the Bangladeshi side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Smoke and flames in Myamar are seen from the Bangladeshi side of the border near Cox's Bazar's Teknaf area, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 3 September 2017

Dusk settles over a new camp inhabited by Rohingya Muslims today near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Bangladesh. | Photo @BernatArmangue: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 5 September 2017

Dusk settles over a new camp inhabited by Rohingya Muslims near Cox's Bazar's Gundum area, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, was already sheltering some 100,000 Rohingya refugees before another 123,000 flooded in after Aug. 25, according to the U.N. refugee agency's latest estimate on Tuesday.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 5 September 2017