Tag Archives: Poetry

Notes on This Year’s Birthday Poem

Posted on June 23, 2020 by

Every April 14th, I mark the completion of another trip around the sun by sitting somewhere, quietly and alone – before the birthday celebrations begin, before social convention requires my attention – and make note of where I am. I … Continue reading →

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Hundred Highways Tour #96 – #100: CA-87, CA-85, US-101, CA-156 & CA-1 to a Cliff Overlooking the Pacific

Posted on December 9, 2017 by

What better place to end the tour for Vagabond Song than on the same road where the book ends: the Pacific Coast Highway on the very farthest edge of that myth we call America? And what better audience than the … Continue reading →

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Hundred Highways Tour #65, 66: US-23 & I-75 to Bayliss Library

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

Being from the lower peninsula of Michigan, the U.P. feels like having a mystical, ghost-like sibling. Yes, we’re related, but something magical and unknown is going on up there. We trolls can visit, we can make jokes about Yoopers, but … Continue reading →

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