Memories of Pacific Coast Places

Memories of Pacific Coast Places
Travels on US Highway 101 & 1
West Coast Snapshots & Snippets

Haiku, Short Poems, Photos
Graphics, Concrete Poems

By Michael P. Garofalo

"Loaded Logging Trucks Rumbling

Up and Down Daily on US 101,

In WA and Oregon.

They bring Timber to the Mills,

Where machines and men,

Shape Douglas Firs into 4x4's

For the Home Depot bins.

Timber and the Northwest,

a USA economic mainstay;

Replanted Managed Forests the Norm

in these 2022 days.

Coos Bay darkened in the fierce wind and rain;

while the Indian Casino was bright and gay,

slot machines running night and day.

Quiet Brooking, a humble seaside place,

with the nearby Pelican Bay Prison locking up

the worst of the human race.

A dead whale in the sand near Orick rots,

the carrion birds eat and happily squawk. 

Eureka Bay, was wasting away

in the plywood papermills' scum,

something needed to be done;

and, the old nuclear plant's

abandoned concrete core,

a statue in the sun,

had to be undone.

Whether in Oakland or Tacoma, ports so busy,

docks unloading, 24 hour bustling cities."

Memories of Pacific Coast Places
Travels on US Highway 101 & 1
West Coast Snapshots & Snippets

Haiku, Short Poems, Photos
Graphics, Concrete Poems

By Michael P. Garofalo