
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
“The earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson So does Lisa Wong-Esposito. It’s easy to walk and be lost in thought. Too easy. Too many thoughts. And so sad when so much […]
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