Inside the entrance to the new Folk Look

Buffet, she gestured to the cardinal points

While turning ten directions to anoint

A space where people gather, serve and cook,

She prayed her enterprise is not mistook

As rising higher than her God-appoint-

-ed place, perfuming corners, doors and joints

With incense oils every step she took.

She planned Grand Opening to ally with light

Defeating darkness on the Winter Solstice

As day increases so will profits gain

With Fortune, golden sunshine outdays rain

And patrons citywide will pay her notice

Proclaiming Folk Look the garden of delight.

 

 

Ernest Cardenas

San Francisco

December 2004