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Santa Nella, California


Robin S. Tanner


With profound apologies to A.A. Milne


Halfway down The Five

Is a place

Where I stop.

There isn’t any

Other spot

Quite like

It.

It’s not in The Bay;

It’s not in L.A.;

So this is the spot

I always

Stop.




Halfway up The Five

Isn’t up;

And it isn’t down.

It isn’t House of Old People;

It isn’t H.R.

And I’m grateful for lattes

And moments alone:

“It’s supposed to be

Ephemeral;

But someday I’ll

Never leave!”