Street names on Whidbey Island

Fox Spit Road
Brainers Road
Doc Savage Drive
Xanadu Drive
Grimm Drive
Shipping View
Useless Bay Avenue
Silent Cedars Lane
Scenic Heights Lane
Monkey Hill Road
Deception Circle Road


photo from Deception Pass, the skinny waterway at the island's northern edge

I’m wind- rattled. The wood’s splitting.

Augusta, Montana has just as many cowboy hats as I imagined. Just another day here in Big Sky country.

Of everyone I ever knew, I've gotten used to you

May 2014, walks with my main guy Q, steady as ever after seven years

Every dial tone, every truck stop, every heartbreak, I love you more

Anacortes Ferry

When you catch light

You never held it at the right angle

But you'd rather make it hard

Stress days these days, but soon, I'll be fancy free again, lunging across sand, all my jowls flapping.

Just say something perfect, something I can steal

your mother won’t approve of the bioluminescent smear

This is not how to start a fire with sticks

sugared and stretched and dazed on the unmown lawn

Delhi, La.

somewhere down the street before the light / turns green

Chatham Street in Delhi, LA

I stood still. It's what I did.

First thing in the morning

And I'm waiting on the weather that I know will pass.

I know that it's true: It's gonna be a good year.

Where we can light each other like fireflies

We have a good life here.

We will make our way down to the water

Over those mountains there's a sun that is sleeping

Camera man, in place out of place

so when this fog lifts

ps: This my 1,000th post on this blog!

when a song ends in a minor key

Washington, DC

She had been 8 for a hundred years. She was 34 for seven minutes.

Poverty Point
Delhi, La.