An Explanation

Why name a blog after a Ferris Wheel? Location, location, location. The Pacific Wheel sits at the end of the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles California, and I used to run by it once a week when I lived in LA. Its wildly blinking lights were a landmark , the half way point on my runs. I also think of it as marking the end of another type of journey as the Wheel spins at the western end of the continental US. For many years, I had tried to write a poem capturing the BIG theme of my westering journey and the place that California holds in my own twisted artistic consciousness. Finishing that poem a few years ago was a breakthrough for me. How fitting then to choose Pacific Wheel as a name for a blog that I hope will capture my idiosyncratic poetic pretensions, observations, and travels (geographically and culturally.)