Synonymity

I used to live in LA

Pasadena, Alhambra, Central –

I could walk to Korea Town.

Lived in San Diego too,

Coronado, Ocean Beach, Golden Hill –

The Silver Strand was my beach of choice though

As much as I loved Redondo.

The Strand’s position south of the NAS is an honest line

Geology’s trick appropriated from the Pleistocene Epoch

Lending the landscape like an open sore to be healed

By waters warmed to the beat of a California Sun

Where each wake laps its walking rhythms into virgin sand . . .

It’s as if there was a covenant between them,

Endowing all signs of life with a glaze of gold

Beneath an ocean floor of deep blue love.