After many years of living in California, I finally wrote a poem about the beach, and am very happy to have it appear (with audio) in issue 87 of The Cortland Review. (I remember when, years and years ago, TCR was one of the first online literary magazines that felt just as “real” as a print journal, or to me, anyway–I realize that “real” is a very subjective quality in this context. Anyway, it is now venerable in the online realm, and this is my first appearance in it.)