To the Cannon Beach Fire Department Board of Directors, I wanted to write you a letter to tell you that, while I don’t necessarily know “why” you fired Mike Balzar, I simply cannot understand the “how.” I originally met Mike and two of his daughters Kellye and Krysti, playing on a co-ed softball team […]
November Flood
After the flood, the salmon cut
the Wilson River, high and colored up.
Dawn’s dictionary of local-isms and geek speak
Baby Boomerang: An adult kid that moves back in to live with ma and pa…happening a lot these days. Dumb Phone: What I have. The opposite of a “smart phone” which is what distracts a lot of people. Feral Female: Untamed and definitely undomesticated wild woman…watch out, there are a lot of ’em around here […]
Big Seeds
Seeds are no bigger than they were
When our grandfathers planted them.
Our farms are so much larger,
But there is not more land.
Cover Crops
Emiliano was deported
last month.
Today he has returned
and is loading plastic tubs
of cover crops
into a dented white van.
I saw a terrible crash
Out of body I was there Watching it happen Like the man on the TV I saw him shoot himself Every time I saw myself crash The smell of blown airbags Pieces of glass in my teeth I Cut teeth Still finding them in my shoes On these tender feet Weeks later Like my first […]
crows in a wheat field (for Vincent)
in Sun you are weeping dragging last bits of impasto Black across the sky beside you wheat goes on forever golden waves breaking breaking crows gather thick to one side Black like sudden tears they shudder then fly away you hang your head you do not watch them go
Sentences
Minds dip all day into words,
seining food from conversations
and roving stacks of books.
We gather, compose, revise —
slowly meaning more.
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Remembering Steve McLeod
Here are a few more words and photos about Steve McLeod. He specifically posed himself into the hooped picture, and I think he meant for me to share it and the others if the time came. We didn’t speak about that time directly, but he seemed to be intimating it. For the past ten or more […]
Marching for Monsanto to Change their Ways
I snapped this photo outside my shop. Many thanks to these Cannon Beach folks who showed public support for health and Mother Nature! They were marching in solidarity with Mexican farmers who on the same day celebrated Mexico’s ban of GMO corn. Thousands of people marched in more than 400 cities and more than 40 countries around the world. GMO […]
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