the last wave

down a narrow sandy path checkered with manzanita

to Point Rincon in this sleepy surf town

a memorial of painted rocks for a man who gave his wife

the child she always wanted before drowning

on the last wave. three days we stayed in Carp

churning avocados into guacamole. we are lucky 

llamas truly blessed hoping to meet a descendant of

the Chumash   #katyamills

Big Sur beats

highway 1

eleven hundred miles 

of coast with you 

close
los gatos at home
thumbprints

weaving through 

the mountains

radio and gas stations 

the canyons

salt in our nostrils

kelp tossed like an aside

to the beaches
water pounding sense into 

these rocks 

let's
reach out 

over the cliffs to 

eternity

#katyamills

anarch.y

was gonna cross myself

take something wasn't mine

had the opportunity and 

let it be. before i awoke found

myself reading what i wrote on a stage

touching into the under

blue arm tattoo

dear anarchist dream self 

thank you for coming in 

line after 48 years all 

crosses

#katyamills

enter the ocean

i cannot believe i am
flawless if you told me a million times

the salty breath

crashing into shore 

repeats this notion in my dumb

ears

if you dare not enter the ocean 

headlong you will not drown

neither will you be 

healed 

#katyamills

small by the sea

the ocean swallowed the red sun

whole. you and me tucked behind a blanket

this sandy realm gone twilight i feel 

so small by the sea and it's good

why had we not gone swimming? 

had i forgot... in the body

the memory pulled me up

with a start. the mind 

cannot fathom the sinister   

#katyamills

con respeto

you came from Mexico to work 

you say to make money painting

houses seven days a week no days off

ever? this is why you came

you say. i offer you a doctor pepper

and ask you  - con respeto -

the fumes! have they

gone to your head?

  

#katyamills

van.life

they want you they want you to be someone you not they fantasize no intention on realities you fix them breakfast stare into they soul streamin vids fightin jetstream wide open like the canyons the world is hard and wants you too and took you we have lost

#katyamills