Cantua Creek
/…first explored by Spanish Army troops
From the mission at San Juan Baptista,
Led by Jose de Guadalupe…
By Stephen Barile
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Mineral King Road
/“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
Read MoreA Tiny White Stucco House
/To venture inside
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…and grief pursued him,
Not unlike his needing a shave,
when he turned…
By Stephen Barile
Read MoreGrinding Wheel
/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
Read MoreThe Ghosts of Joaquin Rocks
/…party of Mexican deer hunters
In the New Idria Mining District,
On the eastern edge of the…
By Stephen Barile
Read MoreOpéra Candélabre
/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
Read MoreLe Quartier Latin
/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
Read MoreLunch With Paul No. 9
/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
Read MoreLunch With Paul No. 8.
/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
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