My Neighborhood

All in a day's walk.

Agua Caliente

Nate and I went there last Sunday.  If you like turtles and palm trees, it's a great place to see both.

Oh, and for good measure--a poem.

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I sleep with cucumbers goggled on

to my eyes, never a puffy lid

I lie down with a soft animal

at my side, something fluffy

(breathing softly)

I dream of you, all your faces

merely aspects of Myself

I wake, back achy in the night

& stretch my muscles in delirium

I roll into the walls & they give

or I give, rather, & push out

through (atoms are atoms)

The night is boundless, nothing

but pools of stars & palm trees so

I float in the sky like an ignorant baby

not blissful, just—