on the path next to the wash, 900 block of N. Riverside, a palm tree has turned from its one-way highway to the sky had to be something mechanical - bent axle, broken driveshaft, steering issue – since the Mexican Fan Palm now speeds towards San Bernardino someone should call who’s ever in charge of that because it could be on a collision course with some other day-dreaming palm on its morning commute, whistling from its easy drive towards the sun oblivious to the gre

a mango tree celebrates spring with dozens of births on a single stem and every time, you’re lucky if one of them reaches the table they’re smarter than they look, usually wise enough to drop most of the junior fruit before the snap of an overloaded branch kind of like loving yourself means not being so accommodating as others would want, saying no a lot more than you did before remember blushing skin, clear eyes, rosy cheeks, normally means you’ve soaked up enough se

it doesn’t have to be a war a world away to feel like something’s closing in something invisible and spreading moving day and night without boots on the ground or weapons of any kind a defenseless danger because its slow attack is soundless...