With eagle tattoo on face – Haight Ashbury. Photography by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”

Like priestly imprisoned poets,
the poplars of blood have fallen asleep.

Johnny Horton – Whispering Pines

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Jessica in my backyard on a rare hot August day in San Francisco. Photography by Oliver Maxwell Kupper.

Was just exposed to a world I’ve never known. Planets sane men have never traveled to.   A place too dark and too bright – too neon to experience the reality most men know. A great white ghost of nostalgia covers you like an obscene scepter.