extrañando cada paraje superado
o meramente anterior
cada techo que le separó de la noche

cada lecho que le permitió levantarse aún al día
después de machacarle al esqueleto
largas estaciones de avanzada soledad

buscando reflejar sobre pies al aire
un aliento repite al otro en espejo turbio

bajo el agua corriente que lava la vista
encostrada de ilusiones en polvorosa
un aliento repite al otro

…bienvenidos, cyber-breadfruits! (SOUND, OFF: ‘The Sheltering Sky’, by King Crimson)

lack echoes absent source
& mirrors void infinity

–my father’n eye?

…three nights in Fort Bragg at the Harbor Lite ( http://www.harborlitelodge.com/ )
& a sunny morning farewell got me running down th northern bank of Noyo Harbor by seven…
(Thanksgiving Coffee, of which I’m a ’shareowner’, has its offices, roasting facility & main warehouse on th southside, maybe just a little inland from th main fishboat docks–)

th foreground of eucalyptus over piney aromas, mingled with some kelpy marine notes took me directly to La Guardia, my maternal GrandDad’s hometown in Galicia, just across Rio Minho from Portugal– wonder if anybody’s trying to propagate Albarinho vines around th NW end of Anderson Valley? –or anywhere else near these parts?

Yesterday, between gusty showers, I drove north close to Westport & visited Pacific Star– http://www.pacificstarwinery.com/pacstar/index.jsp
th Westernmost Winery in th lower 48, at least– (I was told there is a winery on Kodiak Island, Alaska, although they work with berries rather than grapes)
–came away with three bottles of atypically subtle wine made by Sally Ottoson.
Also atypical, they were what by other wineries standards might be ‘Library’ wines, with a few years of bottle age & showing nicely. My nose was still half-asleep & it was only on a second taste that th Viognier opened up for me, so I will withhold what would be woefully inadequate tasting notes & trust to share not only th V–, but their Grenache (more a ‘Claret’ to me that th Rose they label it as! –& drinking deliciously six years after harvest!) & idiosyncratic Charbono with th right people at th right time.

Un abrazo, d–

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an online ‘gathering’ of resources for exiles, migrants & th otherwise displaced or wandering labor market pool we all to different degrees are part of…)

as much as possible self-funded by Fair Trade products of high market value from th places of origin of its members:

Cacao Gourmet from Dominican Republic
Cafe from various countries
Wine rom Argentina…

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(–main project for WLM, an ‘anti-franchise’ of local community-based cafetines culturales that host & are themselves linked by th WanderLustMedia ‘portal’,
an online ‘gathering’ of resources for exiles, migrants & th otherwise displaced or wandering labor market pool we all to different degrees are part of…)

as much as possible self-funded by Fair Trade products of high market value from th places of origin of its members:

Cacao Gourmet from Dominican Republic
Cafe from various countries
Wine rom Argentina…

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1198116

a plunge or a glide

drawing a jagged line
in imaginary sand
between feeling & body

tearing my nails out
on blackest thin air