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FISH OBITUARIES (RESURRECTED)
 

Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #15.1: ANCHORAGE

YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS

Anchorage: day one.

Did not see a moose but I feel them.

Read with Frank Soos that rhymes with moose.

The day was warm, fat raindrops on occasion.

The dog with a cast.

The cat goes for walks.

The catalog has an X-rated section, found and retrieved from recycling.

It is an old home, the map etched in the brain

though the names are foggy, long lost friends.

The mountains.

What to say? Read More 
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SINDWINDER BLOG POST #15: SHORT CUT: ALASKA

Leave the car and keys in Seattle

Jetblue:

Got slightly lost on the way to Sea-Tac.

The Security line was short.

Bagel at the G5.

Goodbye Lower 48 for a short time.

An Aisle seat.  Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #12.9.999: CHIHULY with SPACE NEEDLE

Day off on a book tour

Seattle: a place of contrast and extremes.

Troughs and hills.

Rich and poor.

Meat and vegan.

Bus and Mercedes.

Tourist and local.

Glass and steel. Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #14.9.52: ON THE DECKS OF SHIPS (REDUX)

Wenatchee


Seattle to Bainbridge Island.

Last day with Marshall and Carlyn.

Clearish skies, still no sign of Rainier

But what a skyline.

Farewell, Comrades.

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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #14.9.5: ON THE DECKS OF SHIPS

TWO KINDS OF MARINERS

On our last day together:

Baseball.

Hotdogs. Jesus Saves on the Megaphone near the gate.

Kettle corner.

Michael Jackson blaring ROCK WITH YOU on the rickshaw carts. Read More 
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MARY LYON WOULD BE PROUD

THERE IN SPIRIT

AFTER CAMINO ISLAND:

HELLO and THANKS to the MHC Club of the Puget Sound Writing Group.

For the ride (getting a little lost).

For the hard work and laughter.

For Canada, for Merging, for Mini-skirts and First Moves.

For Lies.

For Truths.

For Honest Feelings about Children.

For Rules and Breaking Them.

For 15th Ave on Capitol Hill.

For Poets and Historians.

For Huge American Flags.  Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #14.9: POETS AND SPACE NEEDLES

Seattle

Thank you SEATTLE!

For Lynn Grant and Brain and the whole family on 17th.

For ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY and DEVIN BECKER .

For Cousin Fred and all the Mount Holyoke Writers.

For Marshall and Carlyn who are leaving me soon.

For Christine Walters.

For Volunteer park with the Black Sun.

For Pike Place Market and the guy at the shoe store. Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #14.5.9: SOLITARY PEAK

MT HOOD

We circled the Backside to get to Hood River, 26 to 35.

The slopes were clear and drop offs, blue ice in the notches.

The Backside gave way to orchards, peaches, cherries.

In Hood River the kite boarders were out.

The Columbia is big.

The wind blew the waves upstream -- into the faces of barges and tugs. Read More 
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SINDWINDER BLOG POST #14.5: SEATTLE BY WAY OF MT. HOOD

SINDWINDING

Straight lines are so overrated.

To go north, we first turned a bit south, mostly east. Grisham then Sandy toward Government Camp but we were yawning every 90 seconds so stopped at Tollgate Campground.

Site 3 was next to the Zigzag River. The tent pitched below a little canyon edge.

On sleeping bags we lay in the sun, read, slept, ate chips lazily.

Mac and cheese was the perfect meal.

The road was not far but the river sound drowned it. Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #14: AVENUE OF THE GIANTS

BIG TREE / SMALL KIDS

On Avenue of the Giants

Your neck hurts.

You do not need sunglasses.

People speak French in pullouts.

Trees are called Grandfather.

The road is getting smaller as the trees get bigger.

You are a toy, a mouse.

You want to hug them for joy.

If only they could hug you.
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