Month: February 2017

DET ALPHA

(Sabrina, spiritualist and vendor of spirits behind the Willow Bar). Sabrina was on duty behind the Willow bar. She is an intensely spiritual mixologist, and you can always get your palm read or get an account of the full karmic impact of whatever is happening on our side of the bar from her. Saturn was […]

Port Visit

Harbor park bench Cup of Shizuoka tea Cormorant floats On a placid sea copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, Japan www.carllafong.blogspot.jp

Old Navy

Mac did not have a good weekend, nothing bad, but the Docs had taken beer away from him again. Boomer had the shift off to do family business, and Big Jim was covering for her along with Liz-with-an-S. There was energy in town, the elections and the partisans on both sides had become irritating. It […]

Life and Island Times: Desert Roads

After a brief blast on the interstate that morning, the newly reformed trio exited the world of slab concrete super highways and cement overpass columns to wander through the open country. They would sometimes be rolling on barely visible, dust coated roads, where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presences that required a road to […]

Out Of Sight

Somewhere out in the desert Where dead end trails lead Dreambirds dance on rocks Toad eats a centipede copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, Japan www.carllafong.blogspot.jp

The FIRST Fleet

(COMNAVAIRPAC Headquarters, Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, CA). Boomer was behind the Willow bar, and she was pouring with abandon. I had not had a good day at the office, and it was a relief to her about what her kids were up to, how her Dad was doing, and the rest of the […]

Tradecraft

(1966-vintage shrapnel from a rocket attack in Saigon). Willow was quiet, but it was a wary quiet, awaiting the arrival of people who would drink away the stress of the day. Old Jim was listening to music on his MP3 Player, Mac Showers was dressed casually in an aloha shirt and slacks. Jasper was holding […]

Life and Island Times: Rendezvous

This day would be a low mileage day of a bit over 300 miles. Unfortunately it would be almost entirely on the I40 slab. It would be the last short day for a spell. They had the remainder of the US’s vast southwestern Big Empty to negotiate. They had a course plotted in the general […]

Life and Island Times: A War Zone and a Dead Zone

They slept in a heavenly peace after each consumed a sacred trinity the previous night at Chretin’s: a large 3-way enchilada dinner, 3 dozen nachos and 3 family sized troughs of margaritas. Anticipating a rocket-assisted lift off the next morning due to nacho ingestion, they took several purple pills before commencing their nightly search for […]

Arrias on Bismarck and East Asia

The other day I heard someone opine that it’s a crime that the US hadn’t (and wasn’t considering) going into Syria to take down President Assad. Well, consider this: While the focus of the US, and much of the rest of the world, has been squarely on the US elections, and ISIS, things have continued […]