From the Lower Depths: for Dorothea Lange
A living room in the street beneath the freeway where a dog barks 24/7 tied to a clothes line a sawhorse corralled near a barbecue… Read More »From the Lower Depths: for Dorothea Lange
Oakland
Keller Avenue Strip Mall
It’s a strip mall disguised as a plaza where I used to take my cats to the veterinarian on that one day when maintenance inspected… Read More »Keller Avenue Strip Mall
The Ghost Ship
The Ghost Ship sailed into the Oakland harbor smelling of burning flesh. No one was left. That same day people marveled how hundreds of yellow marigolds, all sizes,… Read More »The Ghost Ship
Forest in the Trees
Along Leona Canyon, it’s past time for dog walkers to crowd the trail, we head out, hills greener from rain, a private consult between me… Read More »Forest in the Trees
Yizkor 2016: Kehilla Community Synagogue
Hear Lenore read “Yizkor.” White robes and prayer books automatically flip to the right page, and the cantor, voice of the synagogue, possessed by the spirit… Read More »Yizkor 2016: Kehilla Community Synagogue
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Never meant to return, which is not to say I didn’t have dreams about the redwoods with their fragrant pine needles or the Pacific Ocean.… Read More »What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Just Like Fruitvale Bridge Park
1. Fruitvale Bridge Park where fresh water mixes with ocean tides, storm drains from Oakland empty into its mouth wide open rents are industrial and… Read More »Just Like Fruitvale Bridge Park
A Congress of Poets
Walk down the hill from the Historic Mayfair Hotel, the room is clean and the water hot, costs less than other places, forget about getting… Read More »A Congress of Poets
To Get a Dog, or Not
Down the stairs of my condominium and across Campus Drive I walk along Leona Canyon Open Space Preserve. In April and May, I canter past… Read More »To Get a Dog, or Not
Benchmarks
Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers –William Faulkner Walk past wild radish and California golden poppies, beyond a pond lined in cattails and home to mallards,… Read More »Benchmarks