The scent of warm redwood and pine<\/p>\n
and golden light dripping between the branches<\/p>\n
of a California forest afternoon<\/p>\n
and you lean back in your chair<\/p>\n
beer in hand,<\/p>\n
and sigh contentedly with the trees.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is no life like this<\/p>\n
not like this<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I step onto the patio<\/p>\n
my bare feet dusty and stuck with sap<\/p>\n
you smile, I thump forward<\/p>\n
and ask about the barbecue<\/p>\n
will there be ribs tonight?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Maybe this is a thing that happened<\/p>\n
and maybe it never did<\/p>\n
because it must have been a vacation<\/p>\n
and I was a child<\/p>\n
and you were a dead man<\/p>\n
and the places we meet are as fleeting<\/p>\n
as the shadow cast by a moving bough<\/p>\n
in a California forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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