The Bixby Creek Bridge Bixby Creek is a gash in the Palisades that bleeds fresh water into the Pacific. -John Charles Frémont Its opened spandrels seem supportive to a dream Not of survival As one might think But of arrival Across that vast chink In the Californian Palisades.

Postcards of the Tom’s River Bridge 1. The Tom’s River Bridge climbs over a bay, nor is it named for Tom, for there’s no mistakin’ a river and a bay and a river named Tom and a bay named Barnegat. 2. The Tom’s River Bridge climbs over a bay climbs slowly like the hump of […]