It was a vanilla sundae kind of a day. It snowed that Sunday; I swam the day before, and I don’t like to do the same exercise for consecutive days, so I […]
A Sundae Kind of Love
U S M C and Epiphany at Sea
Every day seventeen veterans die by suicide. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Esler Faulkner waited for “a thousand Japanese soldiers to come across the river and wipe our ass out.” And come they […]
Early Spring, A Shot In The Arm
“In a way, winter is the real spring-time when inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.” Edna O’Brien, Irish Poet Winter, particularly this winter, can weigh one down—way down. Spring lightens our […]
Presence, And The Silver Sea
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
Angels In Our Midst…
The ladies exposed themselves to me. I saw them for what they were, stewards of our shore, picking up trash washed in by the tide. Angels, pure white-winged angels strode before me. […]
American Heroes
Taylor Morris: “As soon as I stepped on it, I knew…Then I heard the blast. I felt the heat. I knew I had lost my legs. As I somersaulted through the air, […]
Neptune Rising
“And here was Neptune, god of the sea…” I went to the shore one recent day, an offshore storm kept strollers at bay. Surfers will ride a stormy sea. But I saw […]
The Innocents
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) Do you like poems? There are some I don’t like, too much struggle. Many evoke awe, but we have to […]
Passions, and America
It was not like shooting fish in a barrel, it was actually, shooting fish—from a barrel. I was a U.S. Marine Corps Cannoneer. We fired 95 lb explosive projectiles about a dozen […]
Life and the Sea
The beach was vast and empty, but for the shorebirds. Both east and west of me, they gathered like tidal pools of fluttering feathers. It was a sparkling October day, about sixty, […]
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