Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Our names were made for us in another century.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this