Hollywood Beach Pantoum (2004)

Hollywood Beach Pantoum (2004)

Photo: Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A smack of translucent jellyfish quiver like silicone implants on the shore. Tropical parrots squawk lime green gossip in the palms. At daybreak, a porno flick full of silicone implants is being filmed at the...
Overheard on the Beach on the Fourth of July, 2025

Overheard on the Beach on the Fourth of July, 2025

Photo: “Hollywood Beach Boardwalk” by epitomized1, CC BY-SA 2.0 I had a little crick in my neck and she started rubbing my back, hard. I got goosebumps and something popped. That’s when she told me never to face pain head on./ If you don’t invest, you don’t get...
South Beach

South Beach

“Joe’s Stone Crabs Sign” by Phillip Pessar is licensed under CC BY 2.0 I was sunning on South Beach when a thunderstorm materialized. Lightning struck the top of a lifeguard stand and rain started to pelt me. I sought cover in a grove of trees, but...
Summer Sippers

Summer Sippers

Photo by Boston Public Library / CC BY-NC 2.0 We show our love by slurping oysters, three dozen to be exact—two dozen raw and unadorned, a dozen served “dirty,” splattered with sour cream, red onion and red lump caviar. All doused with lemon and Tabasco. Dad and I are...
Looking for Judy @ Books and Books

Looking for Judy @ Books and Books

Photo: Helen89 / Shutterstock.com Five different times during our seven day visit,we trekked over to Eaton Street. Our facespressed the glass window, our hands cuppedour eyes. Looking for Judy. We donned our masks, meandered aisles.Perused displays. Eventually spent...
On Chalk’s Airway, Flight 101 to Miami Beach

On Chalk’s Airway, Flight 101 to Miami Beach

there are two men in my assigned bathtub.One claims the middle seat.I like the middle he announces.It sounds sexual but isn’t. He’s an all-beige man, with bleached skin and bleached teeth, the color of an over-proofed virgin. No one listens to him or the hymns he is...