Colton Banning is back. He is living, near the Venice canals, in a messy house full of conflicted characters. Surrounded by dirt, disorder and self-absorption, he is lusted after by an older woman and taken into a poet’s suffering.
Journal of American Progress
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July 21, 2012 | Categories: Short Stories | Tags: "Journal of American Progress" "Colton Banning", "Short Story", Venice | Leave A Comment »

Down on Venice why
Should have it in my hand.
The Golden State I mean.
Where I went and encountered
A place I didn’t like.
Who knows why
I didn’t fit in.
They told me so
in many words and gestures.
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July 18, 2012 | Categories: Van Nuys and the Valley | Tags: CA, Poetry, Venice | Leave A Comment »

Celery fields in Venice, CA, 1927, which was once known as “The Celery Capital of America”.
IMAGERY – The Celery Merchants of Venice – Hidden Los Angeles.
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