A big thank you to all of you who turned out Thursday night to launch my book, Embers on the Stairs. The Muckenthaler Center is a lovely place--an old Southern California Spanish style mansion converted into an art center. We gathered for the reading in an interior tiled patio-like room.

I had a great time. Hope you did, too. For those of you who couldn't make it because you had a dinner date with the President, here's a sample poem.

Ode to Sardines

The northern sea,
immaculate and immense
drops anchor
on my kitchen counter.
Moonlight reassembled
as layers of watered silk
head to tail
in a bright tin coffin.

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