As with a gourmet meal, the whole experience is a combination of flavors, scent, presentation, and atmosphere. It is this that I strive for in my writing. Poets often take what has been given to them in their experience and deconstruct and reconstruct perception in a way that can offer the unconsidered a different perspective. Sometimes lyric can quiet or console, sometimes it can stick as a pollen grain of realization. Experiences of images, places, and people are shared here for the inner world of imagination and reflection, hopefully in a way that joins with something in you. The theme and focus of this work is of a time period when I lived in San Francisco, England, and Thailand. I was fortunate to “live” in the coffee houses and on the streets of the beat poets, to spend endless hours in the late Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Book Store. I was fortunate to have been able to play as a child in the sacred hollows of the redwood trees. This book celebrates those worlds.