Stephen Barile
/ GreyThoughts.Info…first explored by Spanish Army troops
From the mission at San Juan Baptista,
Led by Jose de Guadalupe…
By Stephen Barile
“We consider the new mines…
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…was worthless,
Getting to the mines was everything.
Three-thousand dollars was raised…
By Stephen Barile
To venture inside
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…and grief pursued him,
Not unlike his needing a shave,
when he turned…
By Stephen Barile
Where the buttress of concrete Stands…
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…the freeway came, there were
Small houses, in neat, squared off rows,
On San Benito Street. Tiny front yards…
By Stephen Barile
…party of Mexican deer hunters
In the New Idria Mining District,
On the eastern edge of the…
By Stephen Barile
Tulare Lake mostly disappeared
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…Lake mostly disappeared
It’s life ended, the lakebed sold
To agricultural…
By Stephen Barile
…first explored by Spanish Army troops
From the mission at San Juan Baptista,
Led by Jose de Guadalupe…
By Stephen Barile
“We consider the new mines…
————
…was worthless,
Getting to the mines was everything.
Three-thousand dollars was raised…
By Stephen Barile
To venture inside
————
…and grief pursued him,
Not unlike his needing a shave,
when he turned…
By Stephen Barile
Where the buttress of concrete Stands…
————
…the freeway came, there were
Small houses, in neat, squared off rows,
On San Benito Street. Tiny front yards…
By Stephen Barile
…party of Mexican deer hunters
In the New Idria Mining District,
On the eastern edge of the…
By Stephen Barile
Tulare Lake mostly disappeared
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…Lake mostly disappeared
It’s life ended, the lakebed sold
To agricultural…
By Stephen Barile
Decorative arms of a floral design
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…opera house, Opéra Garnier, at Place de l’Opéra
In the 9th arrondisment in Paris, built in the Napoleonic style,
At the Pavilion de l”Empereur, with Gumery’s gilt-copper…
By Stephen Barile
Paris, the ideal city
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…lily grows behind the ironwork
of a fence on a sidewalk in 17th century grandeur,
in the timelessness of…
By Stephen Barile
Go down to the gulch and pull gold nuggets out of the creek,
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…the name of the place,
In a suburban shopping center
In North Fresno, near…
By Stephen Barile
I’m never a big fan of standing in line
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…suggested eating at a place
Called The Heirloom Restaurant, or Eats,
At Friant Road and Fresno…
By Stephen Barile
The waiter was apologetic. He became a bit over-attentive.
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…a recommendation from his sister,
Paul and I drove out to the Sierra Vista Mall
In Clovis, and cruised around the parking…
By Stephen Barile
We lost Omar.
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…decided to go all the way out
to the town of Sanger for lunch,
and after lunch, try…
By Stephen Barile
Paul liked George's the best of any Armenian restaurant
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…momentarily we were at a loss
about where to eat this afternoon,
after driving to Chandler…
By Stephen Barile
Chef Paul's is only open for lunch
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…in the parking lot of his gym
when I presented to him
a clipping from the…
By Stephen Barile
So now it was my turn to pick.
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…week we went to Chandler Airport
to find the Flight-line Café,
a restaurant in the old Terminal building.
Paul didn’t want to go…
By Stephen Barile
Paul’s 73rd birthday lunch
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…particular sunny day
was Paul’s 73rd birthday,
A Leo, born on August…
By Stephen Barile
…local Intelligentsia scene
Held claim to the place.
The Existentialists too, readers of Camus,
Or Sartre’s "authentic" way…
By Stephen Barile
Modeled after San Francisco poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Lunch with Paul" is a rollicking adventure…
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…is his day
to choose the restaurant
where we will be having our…
By Stephen Barile