Myrtle Beach
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Winter Fever
The sky: cold, flatGray as concrete.Below it: the freezing beach, Near hard as ice, The winter ocean, Sleeping deeply. Sky of snow cloudsHanging low, Frozen raindrops, Ice crystals, Geometric miracles, […]
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The Luxury of Ideal
Before my father died, I was never in trouble with the law. Daddy prevented me from making early mistakes large enough to follow me through life. The shortcomings he saw […]
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FOURTH OF JULY—An American Garden of Fire
Gunpowder flowers bloom after dark, Flaming roses, black-eyed susan’s of yellow sparks, white lightning orchids, blue hydrangeas of flame, GUNPOWDER FLOWERS ABLAZE Star spangled marathon of ornamental explosions, GUNPOWDER FLOWERS […]
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Spinning The Bottle
That first winter in high school, we were wild. Not full grown teenagers, none of us had a driver’s license, an automobile. or much idea of what to do […]
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The Night Will Be Young Forever
It was 1962, the rabble beyond the waterway were already well aroused. Underage drinking went on in the parking lot at the sock hop. Quite a lot of drinking, almost […]
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The Glitter of Her Laughter
I was still wearing the clothes I had slept in, and couldn’t remember the night before. My head was on backwards. I was starving for something sweet to eat, and […]
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Bomb Attack
About one month into the 9th grade, we were practicing for a nuclear bomb attack, because Fidel Castro had been caught with Russian missiles aimed at the United States, and […]
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Ignition
Whenever a girl got into my car, any chance of my paying undivided attention to the highway disappeared. With a girl beside me, so that I felt her, all the […]
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Larger Than the Land
Headed for Surfside in the wet cold morning, we took Highway 17, a ribbon of asphalt from New York to Miami. Going fishing, we were on the road. Possibilities multiplied. […]