This familiar place is new to me. It is fitting to live here, this neighborhood near the beach, during this chapter. I am infused like an energy drink. Running the park this morning I saw an enormous, shallow-based tree had overturned itself since yesterday’s run with Karim. I looked for evidence of a lightening strike [...]
Crosswalk
Her socket looked cheated of the eyeball. The bandage was a plastic cotton circle and seemed as though it were cut from a baby diaper. The patch didn’t bulge it caved inward like a dimpled chad. I marched by her at the end of my walk along Admiralty Way. I admired her or felt sympathetic [...]
Predictable Ligament
…could be the name of a punk band formed by physicians. Or, I could just like the way those two words sound together…
The Clackamas
I woke disoriented. Fan blades pushed heat around the room, the leather couch stuck to my back and there was a slight knock at the door. I let my brother-in-law in. Josh was on me, it was time to go, I’d overslept.
I’d laid out the St. Croix rod the night before along with my fly [...]
Interstate 5
The cruise control grabbed 79 mph as me and Hammy pushed north past one million cows flanking the highway through Coalinga. We gave a shout to our boy Jeffrey Michael doing a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison five miles back. Could there be a more ironic title for the most overcrowded prison in [...]
Fishing From Shore
See, the word Malibu just rolls off the tongue nicely. Malibu rum has a cocoanut flavor. The beach in front of Gladstone’s restaurant produces fish. A twenty-seven mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway better known as Paradise.
I awoke to the image of Jimmy Carter on my television. Rosalind still looks hot, a bit of a Gilf. He [...]