Coos Bay glows crimson at sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer the husky romps through clover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I start singing the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Empire Boat Ramp\u2014October morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We approach the trail to the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see and old man in his SUV<\/p>\n\n\n\n
watching porn on his phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She’s got long black hair<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and bucks bare ass on the leather,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
screaming someone’s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer runs amok in the mudflats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two boats ply the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drifts of smoke from campfires in the homeless encampment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see pelicans, a seal, gulls, ducks, sanderlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see a naked man taking a piss on riprap<\/p>\n\n\n\n
near his tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elmer and I return to the boat ramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses, women,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
display a poster near the entrance to the crabbing pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s Jesus nailed to the cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some lines about world peace, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And unlikely spot for conversion, I think,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baptism in the bay is handy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
real John the Baptist stuff,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in the field,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in Coos Bay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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