Some Quarks

Lamp anima. Conjurer of fibrillations.

Two days ago I returned from Napa Valley (not pictured), where I attended the 29th Napa Valley Writers Conference, under the instruction of people like Elizabeth Alexander, Robert Boswell, Carl Dennis, Peter Ho Davies, Jane Hirshfield, Antonya Nelson, David St. John, and my fiction workshop instructor, ZZ Packer.

It was a cool scene. As good or better, though, was the fact that I was able to kick it with my boy Ryan and his good gal, Wendy. Ryan and I drove out to his new home in Point Reyes, where I communed with seals, wasps, huckleberries, some quarks, and three Aztec statues that put chills down my spine.