"I drove Pacific Northwest November numb / through trees like tall green drifts to the ocean / seething with chaos."
Tag: ocean
New Poem: “Foolishly Into the Ocean”
"Divert the river from the ocean! / Divert the stream from river, / from lake. Divert the rain / from ground, / from rooftop, / from cloud."
New Essay: “Why We Go to the Ocean” on Hi
"We don’t go to the ocean because there is salt water in our blood. The pH and salt content of our blood might reflect our evolutionary path from the ocean to land, but the physiological requirements to support a periodic human migration would be staggering. Imagine the difficulty someone would have with blood singing for ocean and them without access. Our literature would float with the sorrow."