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Softened by Mist
6:15 a.m.
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Grunion Run
Courtesy of petrochemical-powered jet engines and some spiffy aeronautical engineering, we took flight from our native habitat in the green creases of…
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Softening
Brittle.
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Shadowed
I’m sitting on the porch in a quiet space between late autumn storms that have pummeled the Pacific coast with wind and rain from the southwest.
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Dissolution
It wasn’t much of a house.
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Titus Gravenstein
Two apple trees hunched like aging gnomes in the big side yard of my childhood home.
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After the Storm
Negotiating Spaces Unlit
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Too Hot Too Early
I leave town with dawn spilling rosewater over the eastern ridge, the thermometer sitting at a pleasant 60 degrees.
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Words on the Nature of Life
Reports from the messy interface of nature and the human experience.
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