Concrete and History
You tumble out of Montgomery BART. Up up. Skyscrapers bully your downtown eyes where lofting steel slides into the keyhole of San Francisco fog. Wait you think: who’s this […]
My Mannequin Union
In the last solar year, I cyclically visited the last Macy’s in Denver. Right at the entrance, a mannequin’s whiplash stare lashed me up and down as I strolled around […]
Look Out! for Stampeding Rain
After a string of in-heat dog days, the sky unlatches their cloud gate, lets loose a raining kennel of cats and dogs clawing my face raw. I sprint through this […]
A Feathered Divide
Through my living room window, I spot a peacock resident prowling Occidental and 61st Street yet they don’t pay a mortgage or buy a $7 mocha latte. I must […]
I Hear Oakland Speaking
We walk in May Day sunlight where Menace barks at a bulldog chained behind a fence at the bent junction of Market and 35th. I pet my twelve-year-old poodle mix. […]