This isn't Monterey

4/1/2015

No scent of eucalyptus
hanging in the evening cool,

or cooked up in mid-day
with soft sands and salt.

No mixing of bay scents
with gun grease or boot
polish or diesel fumes.

No soured soaking
into camouflage,

cheap pub beer at 2am
on a Saturday morning.

No call and response
rhythmic t hump of boots,

lifted Guidons of defenders
of proper linguistic grammar
and cultural etiquette.

No Sunday morning
stirs wrapped again in a pair

of soft lazy arms as sea lions
bark down at Cannery Row.

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Larry Thacker

Larry D. Thacker is an Appalachian writer and artist. His poetry can be found in past issues of The Still Journal, The Emancipator, Motif 2, Full of Crow, Kudzu Literary Magazine, Pikeville Review, Country Grind, The Southern Poetry Anthology, O’ Words Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, Unbroken Journal, Mojave River Review, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Revolution John , Broad River Review, The Moon Magazine, Vox Poetica, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel and Appalachian Heritage. He is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia and the poetry chapbooks, Voice Hunting and the forthcoming Memory Train. He serves as Associate Dean of Students at Lincoln Memorial University.

This isn't Monterey

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