police sirens for music

Pablo Picasso, The Rooster, 1938

I was born in an abscess of a city

And I played in the broken glass

I ran with homeless dogs

For music, there were sirens

From the police, the ambulances

And there were women

Whose names I have forgotten

But whose eyes I remember

Fierce and dark, the eyes of lust

So very long ago, so far away

I wonder now, what was my name

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California. The Sacramento Valley. I have Yolo County in my bones, and Davis town is in my blood. I planted deep roots here, a family and a home, and the years spent working, planting, and growing connect me to this place. Does it belong to me? No, more like I belong to it. Flora and fauna worthy of love. People, too. A love day in July, today. Would you like some peaches? The tree out back has had such a fine season.

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Driving the summer backroads of Yolo County

With tiny glimpses of Putah Creek between the Valley Oaks

Tell me, wife, did you know that love could last this long

James Lee Jobe 

The Allman Brothers Band - It's Not My Cross To Bear

"Writing or making anything - a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up."

Sharon Olds

"I measure every Grief I meet

with narrow, probing, eyes;

I wonder if It weighs like mine"

Emily Dickinson

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James