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The Sea Storm Comes Ashore
At Pt. Reyes, I drive over there, winding upon the Drake highway. I pass Inverness and continue through blustery oaks. It is late to drive to the sea and far away, but I have to see it, even in the rain. The western skies are gray as a battleship blowing my way. I am alone in that little car they loaned me, the radio doesn’t work. The seventeen-year-old girl I am courting left far behind in Turlock. I have moved into a commune and sleep with a 100-pound white lab, vacuum every day and keep a fine garden, but daydream of the shy woman next door and watch her out the kitchen window. I drive right into the wind along the flat grassy marsh to the parking lot. The sea reaches over the beach, over the parking lot, down the skinny entrance road and grabs me, the huge tornado waves busting everything in my room. God shows Her face to me for a second, though no one is looking. I can destroy anything anytime, it’s all mine anyway, I made it, I can bash it