2 months of living in Fresno



By city Streets the City is endless, little hints of what it is, but it's
placelessness is perfected, each strip mall, every business park, and post-
war cul-de-sac could be anywhere Tracy, OC, LA,
     Lost in it's own lack of identity, there is a neighborhood in Clovis that looks 
      just like Lakewood, a history I personally know

    Anchor points remind me of my new home: ponds, local chains, the 
  University, the speed limits, the weather, the dust

   By Freeway and Highway, the City is distinctly what it is, carved by farms, 
fields, and rivers, a metropolis dropped from heaven by Saint Joachim’s 
river, a grove of Ash trees, sacred trees - keeping the pterodactyl in or 
out?

 Fresno in the wrong light you look like anywhere - nowhere California - a 
placeless place, uncanny but too familiar. In the right light- alien, different 
and an adventure and I like exploring.

I will root here, and drink the river water and eat the raisins, the Sun Maid 
factory is just down the street, I will battle the Night Crawler and bless the 
sacred Ash groves in hopes they bless me

-- James D., Adult