Remembering an initiation:
From Cooper to Melville
Embarked on unknown waters
Asking for more.
Rocking in the wake of
Flower children in Berkeley—
Echoes of lectures or poems
At Dwinelle Hall or City Lights.
Reading Pynchon on the beach
Floating on his paragraphs—
Entered new territories
Ann Aborite, Alaskan.
Relishing Montpellier again
Felicitous alma mater
Ebullient mentor Claude Richard
Alive, a voice, always
Roaming
Forever
Elusive
American letters