In 2019, the wonderful print (!) magazine The Hopper published a short essay of mine called Off-Base. Though this was before I was officially publishing much poetry, Off-Base reads to me now as something between poem and prose.

It embraces beach offerings, complicated patriotism, a strange voyage into half-myth, and the world’s cutest shorebirds. I’m re-reading it now on a different slip of my much loved Pacific margin, and it still feels right.

Here it is, free to read online in its entirety, as is the rest of the issue. Big bonus: zero ads at this link. Click with relief.