Where I’m Calling From
May 2019, Arroyo Verde Park, Ventura, CA
I come from Ventura, California
from hiking through cattle to Two Trees,
seeing Channel Islands float in the sea,
eucalyptus at Mound, quad at Buena.
I come from Aspen, La Honda, Taos,
Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View,
Los Altos, Peet’s coffee, Ridge Winery,
Stanford, Santa Cruz, Reno, Jackson Hole.
I come from driving school halls delivering
fresh student newspapers, from reciting
poetry on hay bales at Renaissance Faires
in Agoura, Larkspur, Novato, from
climbing Collegiate Peaks Colorado
Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton,
Yosemite granite and gym plastic,
Gibraltar sandstone, monkey bars, school roofs.
I come from mud between my toes, hail on
my head, sagebrush in my cuffs, hot springs in
my curls. From burrowing owls, red tails,
spotted owls, bush tits, Hollywood finches,
peregrine falcons, wrens. From sycamores,
cecil bruner’s, rose geraniums, pine.
From crows nests, trailers, vans, stucco, tents.
From Santa Anas and El Ninos. From
Sierra, Rockies, Tetons, Pingora,
Castleton Spire, Cascades, Mojave,
Great Basin, Coachella, Black Rock City,
Telescope Peak, Wheeler Peak, Badwater,
oceanwater. From sweat. From tears. From dew.
art predator 
Gwendolyn,
Thank you for your persistent excellence.
Wayne
Thank you so much!!